Monday, October 12, 2015

Start Time: 8:37 AM

End Time: 8:55 AM

Title: Choose Wisdom

Scriptures: Proverbs 23:23

God’s Message/Promise/Commands:

Amazing day with Jesus!  Today, I started with a hectic and busy schedule.  I normally, start my day with my daily devotional but today, I woke up with a headache and it made me do things slower than my usual pace.  But God knows the future ahead, yesterday, I received this milk tea with ginger drink as a gift from Ptra Arlene and although I didn't plan to drink it today... becuase of my headache, I did.  I wanted to drink something hot in the morning but was hesitant to drink my morning coffee because I had a headache so I decided to try the milk tea with ginger instead and viola, my headache is gone.  So thank You Ptra but most of all thank You Lord for knowing what's ahead.  So this is the reason why i'm doing my devotional at this time instead of my usual earlier schedule.

Proverbs 23:23 says, "Truth, wisdom, learning, and understanding are worth paying money for. They are worth far too much to ever sell." Wow, such an amazing and powerful lesson for today.  I know I am guilty of this.  How many times have we replaced wisdom or learning for things that we thought are more important?  I will take an example closest to my experience today. I started slow today because of a headache and I started my day without learning from the Wisest person of all, the Lord.  I started doing some of my tasks and I could choose to continue doing my work knowing that I have more things to do, plus this is my work, which means, this is my source of income.  But today, God says that wisdom, truth and learning and understanding are far worth more than whatever money I can earn from my work.  And this only confirms that I made the right decision to do read His word before continuing my usual tasks for the day.  Thank You Lord.

Prayer:

Lord Jesus, thank You for Your love and grace and mercy.  Thank You because today, despite of the slow start, You managed to organized my day that I am able to schedule and finish everything on time.  Help me Lord to always remember what's more important in life and to realize that I should always seek wisdom, truth, learning and understanding and make it a priority in my life.  In short, that I should always make You a priority in my life at all times.  In Jesus' Name, Amen!

Memory Verse Share for today:

Proverbs 23:23 (Easy to Read Version)

23 Truth, wisdom, learning, and understanding are worth paying money for. They are worth far too much to ever sell.

How many times have we chosen to sell or replace the truth for what we think is more valuable?  A classic example will be reading the word of the Lord.  We know that wisdom comes from God and His words, the Bible, contains what we need in life.  However, how many times have we chosen to read something else than the Bible?  Or do other things like watch TV, movies, listen to music, or spend time with other things to entertain us than educate and teach us?  I know I am guilty of this.  But today, God is telling us to choose wisdom and value wisdom for its worth.

May God shows us what really valuable in life and help us choose to prioritize them.

Happy Monday!