ETERNAL DIVIDENDS

Psalms 119:97-99 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 a more complicated life at a pace much faster that God ever intended for us to. The irony of it is that in spite of all this mechanical help, we have less time for the important things of life than we used to. We 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 of us at all levels of society.

We live in an “instant-gratification-and-without-cost” society. We want to lose weight without dieting; fitness without exercising; wealth without working; intelligence without learning and cleanliness without scrubbing. And even more, we want humility without humiliation; to be loving not having broken; to reign not having suffered; to be patient in lack of 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.

This is not the way God made it. It takes time to learn, grow and mature. It takes a faithful “day and night” investment in the meditation of God’s Word to obtain a return in godly wisdom. Time invested in the faithful meditation of God’s Word returns dividends more eternal than that invested in worldly ‘stocks’.

How much is gaining wisdom from God worth for us? If it were priced, how much would we be willing to pay for it? If it were marketed, how much of our time would we invest to get the dividends of His wisdom? I have heard of people who believed it was worth all that they owned.

Matthew 13:44-46 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.