Daily Devotion

March 24, 2006

Psa 119:97-99 KJV O how love I thy law! It is my meditation all the day.  (98)  Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.  (99)  I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

It has come to my attention that we live in a very strange world.  Whereas machines are supposed to make our lives slower and easier, we now live at a pace much faster and complicated that God ever intended for us.  The irony of it is that even with all this mechanical help, people have less time for the important things of life.  They seem to not have time for anything at all anymore, and certainly not for the type of meditation on God’s Word that make a man wise, and the results are evident in all the foolish decisions made by so many at all levels of society.

We live in an “instant-gratification-and-without-cost” society. We want to lose weight without dieting; we want fitness without exercising; we want wealth without working; we want intelligence without learning; we want cleanliness without scrubbing. Worst of all, we want to be humble without getting humbled; we want to be loving without having to be broken; we want patience without experience; and we want to be wise without having to go through the testings of integrity that a life meditating on God’s Word offers.  

But this is not the way God made it.  It takes time to learn, grow and mature; it takes faithful “day and night” meditation on God’s Word to obtain wisdom for God.  Time invested in the faithful meditation of God’s Word will return in dividends of Godly wisdom, but you cannot get them if your time is invested in worldly “stocks”.
  
How much is gaining wisdom from God worth for you?  If you there was a price for it, how much would you be willing to pay?  If there were a market for it, how much of your time would you invest to get the dividends of His wisdom?  I have heard of people who believed it was worth all that they owned!

Mat 13:44-46 KJV  Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.  (45)  Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:  (46)  Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.