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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Faith is Required
Reconciliation between God and man is by God's will and by God's act of forgiveness, but being reconciled to God also requires man's obedience of faith. Why else would we be given the ministry of reconciliation and be told to preach the word of reconciliation and go out as ambassadors, imploring people, begging them to "Be reconciled to God," as 2 Corinthians 5:20 says, if their obedience of faith was not required? I mean, if this is entirely God's plan and action, what is the purpose of our involvement with these individuals? Why don't we just say, "God, just zap them and reconcile them"? Here's why: because there's a marvelous, inscrutable component in the work of reconciliation, and that is the obedience of faith. So when we go out, it's like God begging through us that sinners be reconciled to Him. Now I admit that's mysterious to me. If God knows who will be reconciled, it's all predetermined, settled, and done, then why in the world are we going around begging everybody to be reconciled to God? I don't think I will ever be able to reconcile that, probably not even with my glorified mind. But it's no problem for God. So we go to sinners, that's what we do, and plead with them to be reconciled. That's our task as ambassadors. It's as if God had sent us as His personal agents into an alien culture to beg the people to be reconciled to Him and to say to them what Paul said in Acts 16, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved." It's to do what it tells us must be done in Romans chapter 10, starting in verse 9: "If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved; for with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation." So what do we do? We go out there and beg sinners to believe. Verse 11 says, "Whoever believes in Him will not be disappointed." We call people to believe. Verse 13 says, "Whoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved. How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How should they believe in Him whom they have not heard? How shall they hear without a preacher?" So there we are. We are the preachers. We tell them, and we call them to faith. Therefore, reconciliation happens by God's will, by God's act of forgiveness, but also by man's act of obedience of faith. And do you know what's amazing about that? Sinners are responsible for their own rejection. Are they not? Because Jesus said, "You will die in your sins because you believe not on Me; and where I go, you'll never come." In other words, if we are reconciled to God, He gets all the credit. But if we are not reconciled to God, we get all the blame. That may be difficult for us to understand, but it's not difficult for God. So as ministers of reconciliation, we preach: "Be reconciled to God," because their obedience of faith is required. Repent and believe! GTY.org (80-164) – The Mission of the Church
Today's Wisdom
Day: 956
June 26, 2026
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