WISDOM. Hebrews 4:12-13.

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The year 2020 was a year of searing pain.

I talked to a friend at work during the summer of 2021 about the year of 2020, and about politics, riots, COVID, vaccines, and suffering. If you measured the greatest amount of pain distributed to the greatest number of people, the pain of 2020 must have been record-breaking.

So 2021 becomes the year of questions:

How do I interpret 2020? What do I believe about COVID? Politicians? Riots? Race? Vaccines? What about all the conspiracy theories?

The year of 2021 thus became the year of questions and the year of drawing conclusions. It was the year of WHAT NOW? Of HOW SHOULD WE THEN LIVE?

If you hope to understand events, rather than ignore them, you MUST have wisdom.

Whose wisdom? God’s wisdom! There is no other source for answers. Forget television. Turn off podcasts. Stop scrolling. You must open the Word of God. It is time to STUDY TO SHOW THYSELF APPROVED UNTO GOD, 2 Timothy 2:15.

“For the word of God is LIVING and ACTIVE, and sharper than any two-edged sword, able to penetrate to the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from HIS sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him to whom we must answer” Hebrews 4:12-13.

What is this sword metaphor in this passage? What is being dissected, the Bible? No. The Word is the surgical tool that dissects US, you and me, teasing out and separating the parts, revealing hearts, intentions, motives. The word reveals fraud. Think about that.

Read the scriptures. On the subjects of COVID-19 and the year 2020, there may be no easy answers, no quick fix. Read anyway.

And when the Lord gives you answers, will you be ready to receive them? What if He tells you that you have been wrong on one subject or another? (Surely we have all been wrong on something.) When He reveals it, ACCEPT IT.

“Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion” Hebrews 3:15.

God, don’t let us harden our hearts. Help us listen. Grant us wisdom, and the humility to change our minds. Make us humble, teachable, and disciplined. Thank you for giving wisdom generously, as you promise in James 1:5.

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Published by Steven Wales

Dad's Daily Devotional began as text messages to my family. I wanted my teenagers to know their father was reading the Bible. But they were at school by then. Initially, I sent them a favorite verse or an insight based on what I read each day. That grew into drafting a devotional readng which I would send them via text. I work as an attorney and an adjunct professor, and recently wrote a book called HOW TO MAKE A'S.

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