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 Purpose of Salvation
People often ask me, “What’s the purpose of salvation?” Well, there’s a clear statement of the purpose of salvation, and it's in Romans 8:29: "He predestined us to become conformed to the image of His Son that He might be the firstborn among many brethren." I hate to shock you too much, but the purpose of salvation was not primarily for you. The primary purpose of salvation was not to rescue you from hell and transport you to heaven, where you could sit on a cloud, play the harp, and enjoy eternal bliss. That's merely a secondary and corollary benefit. The purpose of salvation was not so that you could go to heaven and live in some mansion up there, as people like to think about in John 14. The purpose was not so that you could trek your way through the cubed, transparent, gold, bejeweled city called the New Jerusalem. The purpose of your salvation was not to make you into a perfect person who would live forever in the eternal bliss of heaven in unmitigated and unending and consummate joy. No. The purpose of your salvation was so that you could be conformed to the image of His Son. What does that mean? God's plan in salvation was to make the saved like His Son, Christ. This is really unimaginable, but this is God's plan. You say, "What does that mean? We're all going to look like Jesus and be 33 years old and have shoulder-length hair and a beard?" No. It's talking about your holiness, your blamelessness, your righteousness, and your spiritual perfection. I don't know all that it means except to say that you will have a body like unto His glorious body, and the only thing we know about His glorious body is what we see in His post-resurrection appearances, right? He was visible. He was touchable. He could speak. He could eat. He could transport Himself supernaturally, rapidly. He could live in time, in space, and out of it. He was perfect and sinless and visible only to those to whom He chose to reveal Himself. But we're going to be brought into the same form as the resurrection body of Jesus Christ. In whatever way glorified humanity can be like incarnate deity, we'll be like Christ. It's a spiritual reality, and yet we will have a glorified body. We're going to be made in the image of Jesus Christ in that somehow God is going to shape us into a replica of Jesus Christ. We will not be Jesus Christ, as a son is not his father, but we will bear the image of Jesus Christ, as in some ways a son is a replica of his father. According to Genesis 1:26, when God made man, He made him in His image and in His likeness. But that original image was defaced and marred by sin so that that original body had to be discarded in the grave. But there is coming a time in eternal glory when the intention of God, that man would be made in His own image, will again be restored to his glorified body. And Jesus became one of us so that we might become conformed to Him. That’s the purpose of salvation. So that we can become like Christ. Amazing! Repent and believe! GTY.org (90-180) - The Purpose of Salvation – 90-180
Today's Wisdom
May 1, 2026
Day: 910
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