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.
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How to Reach the World
I really believe with all my heart that before we can reach the world, we have to leave it. In John 8:23, Jesus said, “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.” Jesus, even though He came into the world, reached the world from the vantage point above the world. So the only way to really reach the world is to leave the world or to be from without the world and to bring to the world a divine dimension. Jesus reached the world from a vantage point that was way beyond it. And the apostle Paul says that we are going to reach the world also when we are no longer of the world. This paradox runs all through the conversations that Jesus had with His disciples and elsewhere in the New Testament. Isn’t it interesting that Scripture contains many statements about being in the world, reaching the world, living as Christ in the world, and living righteously in the world, while also presenting the additional dimension of needing to reach the world from outside of it? So, how are you going to resolve the paradox? How can I say that you have to reach the world from beyond the world when Jesus says repeatedly to go into the world? And when John says “be Christ in the world,” how can these two be brought together? It’s very simple, really. It isn’t complicated. It’s simply this: your inside lives in heaven, and your outside lives here in this world. That’s all. And I really am convinced that until a Christian, in his heart and his soul and his mind, has learned to live his spiritual life in the heavenlies, he will never be able to touch the earth with the truth of God. It won’t happen. As long as we’re earthbound, as long as we are preoccupied with the world system, and as long as we are caught up with money and fame and prestige and popularity and fashion and education or whatever—as long as those are the things you love the most, and you can tell what you love the most by what you think about the most—and as long as you do that, you’re earthy, and you will not reach the world with the Gospel the way God would want. It gets down to the fact that we have to push ourselves away from the world, and we have to become bystanders. We need to be in the world but not of the world. We have to have an objective look. We have to have a very uninvolved eye so that we can at least begin to see the real poverty of soul, the real destitution of spirit, the real hopelessness, the real helplessness, and the real loneliness of a world without Christ. Ultimately, the Christian must reach a point where they can emulate the actions of Paul and other great men of God throughout history, which involves stepping out of the system and entering God's presence to effectively minister to this world. There’s just no way you’re going to touch the world until you get out of it and see its needs genuinely and honestly and realistically. Therefore, we must be in the world, but not of the world, to reach the world. Repent and believe! GTY.org (2145) - Living the Risen Life – 2145
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January 26, 2026
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