THANKFUL

Chatting with Jesus

Thursday, March 2, 2023

Lord, Your Word teaches us to pray for wisdom in all matters. King Solomon’s Proverbs repeatedly urge us to seek wisdom, for wisdom protects us from deception and guides us to make wise decisions. Your earthly brother James wrote of the importance of wisdom.

“If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking,” James 1:5 (NLT).

Lord, You delight to give wisdom to anyone who asks. Sadly, there were times I wasn’t thinking and jumped the gun and created a mess You had to clean up. And if it’s any comfort to me, or others who have done the same, reading the Scriptures find us in notable company.

Consider Abraham, the father of our Judeo-Christian faiths. He created a blundering mess when he told Pharaoh that Sarah was not his wife but his sister. When Pharaoh took Sarah as a wife, Abraham panicked, “What were you thinking?”

King David, who wrote 74 of the Psalms, unfortunately disgraced himself with Bathsheba and created a national scandal. “What were you thinking?”

Although King Solomon wrote most of the Proverbs, he had 700 wives and 300 concubines. I’m left shaking my head at his lack of wisdom. “Well, duh! What were you thinking?”

Reading stories about biblical giants such as Isaac, Jacob, Peter, and Paul leave me questioning their bone-headed actions, “What were you thinking?” I’m no biblical giant, but I too often have fallen into that group. “What was I thinking?”

Lord, reading the Scriptures reveals what’s on Your mind.

“For God so loved the world He gave His only Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent His Son not to condemn the world (us) but to save us,” (John 3:16,17).

You delight to save and restore members of the “bone-headed actions” club.

“Love! That’s what I was thinking.”—God

Amen.