Pastor Don’s Devotion_2_17_2008

Scripture: Proverbs 9-11

I love how God’s word helps to simplify life to its core issues. In a world that is so driven by knowledge constantly pressing us into information overload (web surfing, emails, Tv, billboard etc.) All this works to create the illusion that I have an endless list of options. Yet, quietly and clearly the voice of God’s word reveals there are really only two options: Wisdom or Folly.

It brings the issue to what am I choosing.. Wisdom pulls back the curtain to reveal then when all these options that fall outside of wisdom… each one serves only to dumb me down much like how Pinocchio’s choices lead him further and further down folly’s path. All the while, transforming him from within into the symbol of folly, i.e., donkey.

Lord please help me not to become dim witted in my thinking. Grant me Your wisdom from Your Word to discern which path I walk and wisdom to turn around when the path leads to folly.
Please draw my family and the youth into your word so that no one will be taken captive by the philosophies of this world and its entangling temptations.