God's Wisdom For Today

Today’s Big Question: 

How closely are you watching your feet?

Today’s Scripture:  Proverbs 4:26-27

Carefully consider the path for your feet,

and all your ways will be established.

Don’t turn to the right or to the left;

keep your feet away from evil.

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Today’s Big Question: 

What are you doing with your heart, mouth, and eyes?

Today’s Scripture:  Proverbs 4:23-25

Guard your heart above all else,

for it is the source of life.

Don’t let your mouth speak dishonestly,

and don’t let your lips talk deviously.

Let your eyes look forward;

fix your gaze straight ahead.

Other scriptures referenced in today’s episode:

And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, (Ezekiel 11:19 )

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. (2 Corinthians 5:17)

A good person produces good out of the good stored up in his heart. An evil person produces evil out of the evil stored up in his heart, for his mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart. (Luke 6:45)

I, wisdom, share a home with shrewdness

and have knowledge and discretion.

To fear the Lord is to hate evil.

I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct,

and perverse speech. (Proverbs 8:12-13)

The lips of the righteous know what is appropriate,

but the mouth of the wicked, only what is perverse. (Proverbs 10:32)

The discerning sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth. (Prov 17:24)

Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every hindrance and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us, keeping our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. (Hebrews 12:1b-2a)

“The heart is the “master-control” of the life; a wrong heart always produces a wrong life. To allow sin into the heart is to pollute the entire life… “The unexamined life is not worth living,” said Socrates. The Lord is pondering (examining) our lives (Pr 5:21, 15:3, Je 17:10, 2Chr 16:9), and we must examine them too (cp 2Co 13:5). Live in God’s Word and He will protect your path, direct your path, and perfect your path, for the glory of Jesus Christ.” - Warren Wiersbe

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Today’s Big Question: 

 Are you too close?

Today’s Scripture:  Proverbs 4:14-15

Keep off the path of the wicked;

don’t proceed on the way of evil ones.

Avoid it; don’t travel on it.

Turn away from it, and pass it by.

Other scriptures referenced in today’s episode:

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; (Psalm 1:1)

With regard to the works of man, 

by the word of your lips

I have avoided the ways of the violent.

My steps have held fast to your paths;

my feet have not slipped. (Psalm 17:4-5)

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Today’s Big Question: 

How well are you learning?

Today’s Scripture:  Proverbs 4:13

Hold on to instruction; don’t let go.

Guard it, for it is your life.

Other scripture referenced in this episode:

“Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain fell, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and pounded that house. Yet it didn’t collapse, because its foundation was on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The rain fell, the rivers rose, the winds blew and pounded that house, and it collapsed. It collapsed with a great crash.” (Matthew 7:24-27)

Quotes shared:

“such may be said to take fast hold on it, who receive it into their hearts, and not into their heads only; head knowledge of the Gospel instruction is not hold fast enough, it must be heart knowledge of it; it is taken fast hold on when it is mixed with faith when heard; when it is digested and incorporated as it were into men, and becomes the ingrafted word; when men are led experimentally and practically into it, and are not hearers only, but doers of it; and, being thus taken fast hold of” - John Gill

“In the southern seas an American vessel was attacked by a wounded whale. The huge monster ran out for the length of a mile from the ship, and then turned round, and with the whole force of its acquired speed struck the ship and made it leak at every timber, so as to begin to go down. The sailors got out all their boats, filled them as quickly as they could with the necessaries of life, and began to pull away from the ship. Just then two strong men might be seen leaping into the water who swam to the vessel, leaped on board, disappeared for a moment, and then came up, bringing something in their hands. Just as they sprang into the sea down went the vessel, and they were carried round in the vortex, but they were observed to be both of them swimming, not as if struggling to get away, but as if looking for something, which at last they both seized and carried to the boats. What was this treasure? What article could be so valued as to lead them to risk their lives? It was the ship’s compass, which had been left behind, without which they could not have found their way out of those lonely southern seas into the high-road of commerce. That compass was life to them, and the gospel of the living God is the same to us. You and I must venture all for the gospel: this infallible Word of God must be guarded to the death. Men may tell us what they please, and say what they will, but we will risk everything sooner than give up those eternal principles by which we have been saved. - C. H. Spurgeon.

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Today’s Big Question: 

Are you on the right path in life?

Today’s Scripture:  Proverbs 4:10-12

Listen, my son. Accept my words,

and you will live many years.

I am teaching you the way of wisdom;

I am guiding you on straight paths.

When you walk, your steps will not be hindered;

when you run, you will not stumble.

Other scriptures referenced in this episode:

But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom;

they don’t know what makes them stumble. (Proverbs 4:19)

Lord, you light my lamp;

my God illuminates my darkness. (Psalm 18:28)

“What does the path metaphor tell us? It tells us that life is a journey, there is no quick fix, and we take it one step at a time with constant moment-by-moment recommitments to the way of Christ.” - Raymond C. Ortlund Jr

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Today’s Big Question: 

How are you responding to wisdom??

Today’s Scripture:  Proverbs 4:8-9

Cherish her, and she will exalt you;

if you embrace her, she will honor you.

She will place a garland of favor on your head;

she will give you a crown of beauty.”

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Today’s Big Question: 

Is getting wisdom a top priority in your life?

Today’s Scripture:  Proverbs 4:7

Wisdom is supreme—so get wisdom.

And whatever else you get, get understanding.

Other verses mentioned in the episode:

I love those who love me,

and those who search for me find me. (Proverbs 8:17)

Happy is a man who finds wisdom

and who acquires understanding,

for she is more profitable than silver,

and her revenue is better than gold.

She is more precious than jewels;

nothing you desire can equal her. (Proverbs 3:13-15)

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;

    fools despise wisdom and instruction. (Proverbs 1:7)

“The NIV clarifies the force of that: “Though it cost you all you have, get understanding.” If you want God’s wisdom, it will cost you. It will cost you all your preconceived ideas about how life is supposed to work. Why pay that price? Because God’s wisdom will make you alive (v. 4), his wisdom will “keep” you and “guard” you (v. 6), his wisdom will “exalt” you and “honor” you and crown you with beauty (v. 8, 9). That is how life really works and that is a life worth living! Who else can promise you that? Every day we are being told that if we want to live we need to be young, thin, tanned, sexually active, rich, and smart-mouthed. There is our cultural ideal, the wisdom of our age. Just one question. Is it working?...Name one person who has thrown themselves into that kind of life and come away from it with what you want for yourself. Name one. And how do you explain 2,000 years of all types of people from different cultures who set their hearts on Christ, turned to his wisdom in the Bible, and found fullness of life?...Whichever you choose, it will cost you all you have.” - Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.

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Today’s Big Question: 

Who or what has your wholehearted devotion?

Today’s Scripture:  Proverbs 4:6

Don’t abandon wisdom, and she will watch over you;

love her, and she will guard you.

Other verses mentioned in the episode:

The Lord will protect you from all harm;

he will protect your life. (Psalm 121:7)

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Today’s Big Question: 

Are you intentionally pursuing wisdom?

Today’s Scripture:  Proverbs 4:5

Get wisdom, get understanding;

don’t forget or turn away from the words from my mouth.

Other verses mentioned in the episode:

How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. (Proverbs 16:16)

An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge. (Proverbs 18:15)

Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23:23)

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Today’s Big Question: 

What makes a life thrive or flourish?

Today’s Scripture:  Proverbs 4:3-4

When I was a son with my father,

tender and precious to my mother,

he taught me and said,

“Your heart must hold on to my words.

Keep my commands and live.”

Other verses mentioned in the episode:

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