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How Are Wisdom and Honey Connected?

How Are Wisdom and Honey Connected?

Dear Lord, I pray for wisdom for those who know wisdom is honey to the soul. In Jesus’s name, amen.

Perhaps you have a favorite memory of the taste of honey. On a freshly baked biscuit? All by itself?

In Proverb 24:13-14 (ESV) wisdom and honey form a bond.

“My son, eat honey, for it is good,
and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.
Know that wisdom is such to your soul;
if you find it, there will be a future,
and your hope will not be cut off.”

Have you given the search for and acquisition of wisdom the importance it deserves?

Note the words, “If you find it.”

This implies there are those who search but never find wisdom.

Don’t be one who searches and never finds wisdom. God’s Word, the Bible, contains wisdom. Search for wisdom there. Finding it will be sweet.

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Eyes Opened!

Eyes Opened!

Dear Lord, I pray for wisdom for those who want their eyes opened, that they may behold wondrous things out of your law. In Jesus’ name, amen.

The psalmist asks God to open his eyes. He pleads with God to hide not his commandments.

Psalm 119:17-24 (ESV) is the third section of the psalm identified by the Hebrew letter “Gimel.”

“Deal bountifully with your servant,
that I may live and keep your word.
Open my eyes, that I may behold
wondrous things out of your law.
I am a sojourner on the earth;
hide not your commandments from me!
My soul is consumed with longing
for your rules at all times.
You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones,
who wander from your commandments.
Take away from me scorn and contempt,
for I have kept your testimonies.
Even though princes sit plotting against me,
your servant will meditate on your statutes.
Your testimonies are my delight;
they are my counselors.”

Is your soul consumed with wanting to follow God? Take some time, and ask yourself, “Is your soul consumed with the things of God?”

Stop. Reflect. And allow your soul to be consumed.

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Delivered My Soul From Death!

Delivered My Soul From Death!

Dear Lord, I pray for wisdom for those who say, “You have delivered my soul from death.” In Jesus’ name, amen.

How would you like to be able to defeat death?

In Psalm 116:6-9 (ESV) the psalmist not only says, “He (the Lord) saved me,” he goes on to talk about his soul being delivered from death. This is good news.

“The Lord preserves the simple;
when I was brought low, he saved me.
Return, O my soul, to your rest;
for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.

For you have delivered my soul from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling;
I will walk before the Lord
in the land of the living.”

John 3:16 (ESV) is a verse about being saved from death.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

What have you done to deserve eternal life? Accept Jesus Christ as Lord and savior. Be saved.

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Wisdom and Honey!

Wisdom and Honey!

Dear Lord, I pray for wisdom for those who know wisdom is honey to the soul. In Jesus’ name, amen.

Perhaps you have a favorite memory of the taste of honey. If it was ona freshly baked biscuit or all by itself, the experience is probably memorable.

In Proverb 24:13-14 (ESV) wisdom and honey form a bond.

“My son, eat honey, for it is good,
and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.
Know that wisdom is such to your soul;
if you find it, there will be a future,
and your hope will not be cut off.”

Have you given the search for and acquisition of wisdom the importance it deserves? Note the words, “If you find it.” This implies there are those who search but never find it.

Don’t be one who searches and never finds wisdom. God’s word contains wisdom. Search for wisdom there. Finding it will be sweet.

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Meditate On All The Lord Has Done?

Meditate On All The Lord Has Done?

Dear Lord, I pray for wisdom for those who meditate on all you have done. In Jesus’ name, amen.

Joshua 1:8 (ESV) says,

“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”

In Psalm 143:1-6 (ESV) the psalmist, David, is pleading with God for mercy and refers to meditating.

“Hear my prayer, O Lord;
give ear to my pleas for mercy!
In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!
Enter not into judgment with your servant,
for no one living is righteous before you.

For the enemy has pursued my soul;
he has crushed my life to the ground;
he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.
Therefore my spirit faints within me;
my heart within me is appalled.

I remember the days of old;
I meditate on all that you have done;
I ponder the work of your hands.
I stretch out my hands to you;
my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah”

Ever feel like David? Has the enemy pursued your soul? Has he crushed your life to the ground? Has he made you sit in darkness like those long dead? Respond as David did. Meditate. Ponder the works of God’s hands.

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A Calm and Quiet Soul?

A Calm and Quiet Soul?

Dear Lord, I pray for wisdom for those who have calmed and quieted their soul. In Jesus’ name, amen.

Imagine having your world turned upside down. Until a few weeks ago, people in Ukraine were going about their daily routines. Life changed. War broke out. Overnight, some left the country. Others became soldiers. Mothers huddled in subways with their children. People died. The war continues.

In Psalm 131:1-3 (ESV) we learn the psalmist had calmed and quieted his soul.

“Lord, my heart is not lifted up;
my eyes are not raised too high;
I do not occupy myself with things
too great and too marvelous for me.
But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
like a weaned child with its mother;
like a weaned child is my soul within me.

O Israel, hope in the Lord
from this time forth and forevermore.”

I do not know if people in war zones can be like the psalmist. Could anyone in these circumstances calm and quiet their soul?

In John 14:27 (ESV) Jesus is speaking. This may provide some comfort.

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”

Pray for the people of Ukraine. Pray for peace. Pray that in the midst of a world turned topsy-turvey, those in crisis will hope in the Lord from this time forth and forevermore.

Whatever your circumstances, can you turn to God and say, “I have calmed and quieted my soul.” Pray.

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