THE MOST NEEDFUL THING – Monday October 2nd 2017
Memorise: Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. Proverbs 4:7
4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
4:6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
4:8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
4:9 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
MESSAGE:
King
Solomon is considered to be the wisest king that ever lived. How did he
become so wise? When God gave Him a blank cheque to ask for anything,
in 1st King 3:9, he said:
“Give
therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I
may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so
great a people?”
He
chose to ask for something that the average person of his time would
consider inconsequential: wisdom. Solomon feared that he might misrule
God’s people and thereby incur God’s wrath, and so he asked God for
wisdom. Indeed, in Proverbs 9:10, he later wrote:
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.”
It
is unfortunate to discover that even among some children of God today,
the fear of the Lord is greatly absent. This accounts for the level of
character erosion that is being witnessed in the Church, so much so that
even pastors are being caught in various acts of sin, such as sexual
immorality. Open Heaven 2 October 2017: Monday daily devotional by
Pastor E. A. Adeboye – The Most Needful Thing. Joseph
was repeatedly tempted and pressured to commit sexual immorality, but
he vehemently refused to indulge in it, despite the fact that it was
offered to him on a platter of gold. The Bible in Genesis 39:8-9 gives this account of Joseph’s steadfastness:
“But
he refused, and said unto his master’s wife, Behold, my master wotteth
not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath
to my hand; there is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he
kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how
then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”
If
you ask me what kept Joseph away from this sexual immorality, I will
tell you that it was wisdom, brought about by the fear of the Lord. How I
wish all of God’s children would embrace the fear of God, so that they
can begin to live in wisdom. It is wisdom to run away from sin, because
the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23).
A foolish fellow would say, “Death will come one day all the same.”
Such a fellow fails to consider untimely death like the one that took
Absalom away (2nd Samuel 18:10-17), the agony of death that comes as a result of sin, and the eternal death in the Lake of Fire. Revelations 21:8 speaks of the Lake of Fire in these words:
“But
the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abminable, and murderers, and
whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have
their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is
the second death.”
For
this reason, our Bible reading strongly recommends that we get wisdom.
The question is, where can we get wisdom? It is from the word of God (2nd Timothy 3:15). Beloved, seek godly wisdom and don’t be lawless in the name of grace, because grace does not indulge in lawlessness.
Prayer Point
Father, put Your fear in me, help me to love your word and give me wisdom.
Open
Heavens Daily Devotional Lessons was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye,
the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the
largest evangelical Church in the world and also the President of
Christ the Redeemer's Ministries.
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