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 on all this wisdom to my children is because God has graciously made it available through the Bible.
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Don’t be Deceived!
Christians may believe that because they’ve been saved, there’s a certain impunity with which they can sin. That’s just not true. So the apostle Paul says in Galatians 6:7, “Do not be deceived.” “Deceived” means “to wander away” or “to be led astray.” That’s what deception is. 1 Corinthians 3:18 says, “Let no man deceive himself.” Not only can we be led astray and deceived by somebody else, but we’re pretty good at deceiving ourselves. And that’s the essence of what this says: “Do not be deceived.” You really don’t need somebody else to deceive you, because you have a deceptive component in you. Even as a believer, you have the remaining sinful flesh, and Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart is deceitful above all things.” So you have within you a force for deceit. In Obadiah 3, the prophet said, “The arrogance of your heart has deceived you.” Your heart is arrogant, self-protective, self-promoting, self-fulfilling, self-aggrandizing, and self-defending. Pride is the primary sin—selfishness. So you have a selfish heart that will want to spin your life the best way. It’ll want to make you feel the best about your situation and your behavior. So your heart will deceive you. And as long as you’re still in this world, you have that deceptive heart. In James 1:22, it says, “Prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.” You can deceive yourself by coming and hearing the Word and doing nothing about it, thinking because you know the truth, that’s enough. That’s a self-deception. Look, self-deceit is a problem for Christians, and it tends to be that the deception runs typically like this: “I’m saved, on the way to heaven, under grace, the Lord will never let me go, so there can’t really be serious consequences if I walk in the flesh.” This self-deception turns into a kind of license to sin. Add to that the fact that there’s also a deceiver in the world. Revelation 12:9 and Revelation 20:3 say that Satan is the deceiver who deceives the whole world. So, you not only have an internal deceiver, you have an external deceiver running loose in the world. The point is that the potential for deception is very great. What can you be deceived about? Well, you can be deceived about who’s a true believer. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 says, “Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you; but you were washed.” Don’t be deceived about who’s going to heaven. You can be deceived by choosing bad friends. 1 Corinthians 15:33 says, “Bad company corrupts good morals.” Don’t kid yourself. If you associate with bad company, they will corrupt your morals. You can be deceived about the church. Don’t be deceived by troublemakers in the church, those who tear up unity, who sow discord, dissension, and trouble. You can be deceived by false teachers. Ephesians 4:14 says, “Don’t be children, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by those who come to deceive you.” Ephesians 5:6 says, “Let no one deceive you with empty words.” Listen, you have a choice as a believer: you can walk in the Spirit, or you can walk in the flesh. But don’t think for a moment that you can walk in the flesh and not pay the consequence. Don’t be deceived! Repent and believe! GTY.org (48-41) - The Inescapable Law of Sowing and Reaping – 48-41
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April 1, 2026
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