50 Days of Wisdom
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Wisdom is a skill in living that begins with fearing God, then progresses to guarding your mind, choosing your companions, controlling your body, monitoring your words, pursuing your work, managing your money, and loving your neighbor. Very simple. But that’s it. And when you’ve done that, you’ve learned wisdom. It’s vital to be taught wisdom. For example, as a father, if I fail to teach my son to fear God, the devil will teach him to hate God. If I fail to teach my son to guard his mind, the devil will teach him to have an open mind. If I fail to teach my son to obey his parents, the devil will teach him to rebel and break his parents’ hearts. If I fail to teach my son to select his companions carefully, the devil will choose them for him. If I fail to teach my son to control his body, the devil will gladly teach him to give it completely over to his lusts. If I fail to teach my children to enjoy speech that is honorable to God, the devil will fill their mouths with filth. If I fail to teach my children to pursue their work, the devil will make them lazy. If I fail to teach them to manage their money, the devil will teach them to waste it on riotous living. If I fail to teach them to love their neighbor, the devil will gladly teach them to love only themselves. And the only reason I can pass any of this wisdom on to my children is because God has graciously made it all available in the Bible.
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The Sabbath - Part 2
Is it correct that we should be observing Saturday, the old Sabbath, or perhaps Sunday, as a kind of new replacement Sabbath, as a holy day, set apart for worship from all other days? Well, to answer that, we need to go back to Genesis chapter 2. The chapter opens with the indication that creation is over: “Then the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts”—everything that occupies them. This work of creation was done in six twenty-four-hour days by God, and since that close of the sixth day, there has never been any further creation, with the exception of those divine miracles that we have read about occasionally in the Old Testament and the flurry of miracles through the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, in which He creates wholeness and wellness within the midst of His now-fallen creation. Apart from that, creation ceased on the sixth day. Creation didn’t go on for thousands or millions or billions of years; after six days it was finished, it was completed. And so, this is a special day, because it signals that God’s entire creation is finished; the creation being completed, God stops and rests. Now, you don’t hear anything about people resting; there’s nothing about man resting, and there’s nothing here about Adam resting. Why? Because he was without sin and a perfect man in every sense, there was no depletion of his energies when he was doing whatever the simple tending of the garden called for. There’s no need to have a day of rest for man; what would he rest from? He’s living in a paradise, with no labor, no sweat, and no expended and lost energy. There’s no Sabbath law given here for Adam, none at all. And nothing is said about this day being a day of worship. It doesn’t say anything about that. It doesn’t prescribe anything for anyone. It is isolated completely to God. He completed His creation; satisfied with it, He ceased, which constitutes rest; and in verse 3, “He blessed the seventh day.” God designed that the seventh day, Saturday, would be a special memorial to His creation and its original perfection. This is so important for you to understand. This is a day to be elevated above all other days as a memorial to remember the glory of God’s perfection in creation. Every Saturday from here on out would be a reminder that God in six days created the universe in perfection. There’s a reason why we live in seven-day units—and man has always done so—and it’s because every seventh day provides for us a reminder that God is the Creator, who created in six days the entire universe. Therefore, Saturday is a perpetual witness to God as Creator. In addition, every Sabbath, every Saturday that went by, was also a reminder of a perfect creation that had been forfeited by sin. Every seventh day was a reminder that they were living in a fallen world and that they had lost paradise. And the only way to regain a taste of paradise was obedience to God: righteousness. Obviously, they couldn’t keep the law, but they were to be driven in penitence to plead with God to be merciful to them as sinners. So, when you go back to Genesis chapter 2, there’s no mention of Sabbath being a law and no mention of Sabbath being a day of worship. The seventh day, Saturday, is a memorial to our Creator, and the first day, Sunday, is a memorial to our Redeemer. Christians worship on Sunday because it’s the Lord’s Day. Repent and believe! GTY.org (90-379) - Understanding the Sabbath - 90-379
Today's Wisdom
May 21, 2026
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