let the wise listen and add to
their learning, and let the discerning get guidance- Proverbs 1:5
An
acquaintance of mine on Facebook is a painter (The Magic Brush). She recently posted pictures from her own
house. She had prayed over her children
a special word and then painted it over the entrance of their door. For example, one of her children had the word
faithful painted above their door. She
said that we need to tell our children who they are and who God wants them to
be OR sees them to be. Throughout their
lives there are going to be people who tell your kids who they are or what they
are and they won’t have your children’s best interest at heart.
Today
when I was sitting and listening to our pastor’s sermon, I remembered a story
about my father. It is father’s day. Dad has been gone 6 years now. He has always and still is my spiritual cheerleader. He understood that my love language was words
before Gary Chapman did. (I have told
you this story before but there is a little more to it.)
One
evening, we were having dinner with another family and my parents were bragging
on my sister. I might have been
thirteen. My sister is brilliant. We spent many of our family vacations
following her all of the United States to some sort of academic
competition. I never cared. I got to go on vacation. The next day, my father came to me and
apologized to me for gloating about my sister.
He told me that I had done many things that made him proud. He also said, that I might not always be the
smartest kid in the family, but I was wise.
God had a plan for my wisdom.
It
is 25 years later, I remember this story from time to time. God placed it in my heart for a reason. I do not believe that I am a very wise
person, but I strive to be, because that is what my father told me. Our pastor was preaching on wisdom today. Pastor Blake said that the key to living well
is wisdom. The key to wisdom is to trust
God and fear God. We need to have the
ability to apply knowledge and in doing so respect and revere our Lord’s plans
for our lives.
The fear of the LORD is the
beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. Proverbs 1:7
Wisdom
is a big word. It is used 41 times in
the book of Proverbs. I have been
praying words over my children for a while now waiting to tell them my chosen
word for this time in their lives. I am
praying the words “gentleness” over Alex and “dependable” over Jax. My children already could be described with
these words. I want them to remember
that I knew that God was using these traits in their lives.
I
also want to praise my Heavenly Father for giving me an earthly father and
husband who seek His wisdom and share(d) it with me.
HAVE
YOU EVER…sought wisdom?
Proverbs 4:5-7; Proverbs 9:10; James
1:5
