Monday 4 Oct 2010

Monday Reading: Proverbs 1:1-6
 
Key Verse: Proverbs 1:3
3  to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgement, and uprightness;
 
Devotion:
How much studying do you do when you have a problem to solve? Many of us will jump in at the deep end and try to work things out from the inside rather than looking for the instructions and then solving it from the outside as it were. Too many of us think that we have the knowledge built in to solve just about anything that comes our way. But, no matter how clever we actually are there are always going to be things that come our way that we have to get help with or ask someone else how to do it.

Relationships are one of those things that we like to think that we have the knowledge to be able to handle. We jump in and try to swim as best we can not realising just how deep the water is that we have plunged into. We do not know the extent of the water, the depth of it or whether we will actually be able to swim in it. If only we had taken time to stop and ask someone some simple directions before we jumped in... If only we had taken some swimming lessons before we decided we could swim! There are so many things that we just do not think about and so many things that we need to know before we jump to the next level in life.

That is why God has given us the bible. If we are not going to ask a friend or ask our parents then we at least have to have somewhere we can turn and get the right answer. Our parents may well have been through it and understand things already so asking them is what we should be doing first. If they have lived their lives for God then they would have learned a lot from God’s Word already; that same wisdom we can then draw on now. God has made sure that people continued to write down His instructions for further generations to learn from. God made sure that some very wise people such as Solomon wrote down instructions for us to not only know him but also to get to know God through those instructions He gave to Solomon. God wants the best for each of us; we just need to listen to those instructions!

Points to Ponder:
Who do you think you learn most from?

Are you trying to listen to God?