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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God’s Law is Elemental?
In the ancient world, the process of growing up was much more dramatically identified than it is today. In the culture in which we live, we don’t even know what grownup means. We’ve got thirty-year-olds who haven’t grown up. We’ve got ten-year-olds who have been so overexposed to things in the world that their thinking is adultlike. We have obliterated those very defining moments in human growth and created a kind of culture between childhood and adulthood, and we call it adolescence. It’s a culture of irresponsibility, largely. But in the ancient world, you went from being a child to being an adult. You didn’t have some middle ground. In the Jewish world, a boy on his twelfth birthday was set to come to the first Sabbath subsequent to his birthday, and his father would take him to the synagogue, present him to the rabbi, and be told that he is now bar mitzvah, son of the law. He is now passed out of his father’s hands, and he is responsible to God for his adherence to God’s law. The boy then prayed the following prayer: “O my God, and God of my fathers, on this solemn and sacred day, which marks my passage from boyhood to manhood, I humbly raise my eyes unto Thee and declare with sincerity and truth that henceforth, I will keep Thy commandments and undertake to bear the responsibility of my actions before Thee.” That’s bar mitzvah. That was a true and ancient bar mitzvah—not what a contemporary bar mitzvah is like today, which is mostly a collection of people to give you money. Back then, it marked a distinct milestone in life. And people at that age would then contemplate marriage. It was the end of childhood and the beginning of adulthood, and the symbol of it for boys and girls was that they brought their toys and laid them down to demonstrate that they put away childish things. In Galatians 4:3, Paul utilizes that concept: “While we were children, we were held in bondage under the elemental things of the world.” What are the elementary principles of the world? They’re the things in which you were held captive before Christ, whatever they are, whatever that bondage is. For example, it would be useless philosophies, traditions, rituals, certain rules, or decrees. Those are forms of elementary principles of the world. But so is the law of God. Even God’s law is an elemental thing. The law is a form of religion that is elementary, and if you stayed there, you will be eternally doomed. The point was to get from there to Christ because in Christ comes full maturity. All religion without Christ is elementary and immature. So what is Paul saying? That all of us are imprisoned. We are held in bondage in our infancy, which is our pre-salvation condition, unable to take our inheritance in heaven until we have reached spiritual adulthood. And God’s law is elemental because the law can't save, can't bring forgiveness, and can't remove the sentence of death and hell. An understanding of that will lead you to Christ, who is able and willing to save, forgive, and remove the penalty of death and hell. But only if you do what? Repent and believe! GTY.org (48-19) - The Adoption of the Believer – 48-19
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December 10, 2025
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