WISDOM

WISDOM

Herein is WISDOM:

                                  "He is no fool who gives what he cannot

                                      keep to gain what he cannot lose ..."

Life is all about "perspective."  Our Lord Jesus Christ gave His life that He could not keep, in order to gain a world of souls that He could not lose.  What is it that we are clinging to that keeps us from gaining something we would find devastating to lose?  All that we are or hope to be is configured in a span of 70 years, give or take a few.  After that?  It's the "after that" that a lot of people don't consider, don't plan for, don't invest in ....  



What could we gain that is just out of reach, that the hands of God are holding right over our heads, waiting for the signal?  Perhaps our "vista" needs enlargement; maybe our scope of perception could use a dose of prophetic insight.  The Lord searches to and fro throughout the earth for those whose hearts are perfect toward Him.  What does that mean?  One definition of perfect is: "exactly reproducing an original."  We are formed in the likeness of our Creator; He wants people whose hearts are just like His!

We all know, you know  ....  what it is that God wants from us.  When we're alone with ourselves in the cave dwellings of our minds, we know ....  If we are Christians, and we've been walking with our Lord for a time, we know  ....  

This is written today for someone, or maybe a whole lot of someones that God has moved on you to give what you don't want to give, to say what you don't want to say, to go where you don't want to go, to sacrifice what you don't want to sacrifice (maybe it's time, money, your pride to go back to your husband or wife, or ...), only you know ...  God is longing to bless your life, work out your turmoil, and give you peace, but the ball's in your court  ...  What is it that you must give and cannot keep?

Living for God is the opposite of human reasoning  ... because He's God!  His treasures are not on the upper steps; they are one step "below" the other.  To climb higher, we bow lower; to receive, we give; to gain, we lose ... it's God's new math; a philosophical amalgamation of ethereal science, the mind and heart of Almighty God!  He shares it with those whose hearts are perfect toward Him.  

The Gift of Wisdom always comes from God.  It's something God knows that no one else knows, but He reveals it to us.  If we seek anything, it should be His Wisdom above all else.  He knows what we don't know, and if we're wise, we want to know what He knows, you know?  

The bottom line of all this?  It's like filmy curtains blowing in the wafts of wind; give Him a reason to open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing you cannot contain.  Give it up ... and gain it back!

                                                                                                                                        By Sheryl Fowler

                                                 (Visit promiselandchurch.net and theexperience238.com.
                                           PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas, Pastor Kenneth Phillips)