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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A Growing and Powerful Church
As your pastor, my goal is for you to fully experience God's blessings and provision, and for the church to reach its full potential. And I’m not under any silly illusions that, if we could be more clever in what we do on the stage, we could have a more powerful church. No, if we’re going to have a more powerful church to impact the world, it isn’t a question of how clever we are on the stage. It’s a question of how willing we are to come alongside believers who are wayward, worried, weak, wearisome, and wicked and lovingly bring them into line. Then the power of God begins to flow, and then the church begins to cut a swath through the world. This is a necessary confrontation. Attending church is not simply about coming, sitting, and staring at the back of someone else's head. That’s not it. Don’t commend yourself for being here. Church is being involved in the lives of people, the troublesome people in the church. We have to go alongside. We do it out of love because we understand the consequences. If the church is going to be powerful and grow and be strong, it’s going to happen when we deal with the problem people in the church because, when they get in line, the impediment is removed and the church can move. So the wayward need admonishing. The worried need encouraging. The weak need support, the wearisome need patience, and with the wicked, we never retaliate. We always seek after and pursue eagerly and zealously that which is good, beautiful, noble, and excellent. You see, we’ve got to deal with each other with compassion, personal love, and personal care. That’s how the church grows. That’s how it purges itself. A growing flock is always characterized by movement in faith, love, and purity toward the fullness of the stature of Christ. That’s a growing church. But that growth is impeded by the wayward and the worried and the weak and the wearisome and the wicked, and if the church is going to grow, it isn’t going to grow because somebody figures out some strategy to go around the problem. It’s going to grow because the shepherds and the sheep come together in intimate relationships in which they admonish the wayward, encourage the worried, hold up the weak, are long-suffering with the wearisome, and render loving goodness to the wicked. And as a church takes that shape and that form, it will be a growing and a powerful church. We need to commit ourselves to being what the church really is, and this is it. Repent and believe! GTY.org (52-26) - Dealing with Problem People – 52-26
Today's Wisdom
December 26, 2025
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