FAITH CAPSULE: Seek the knowledge, wisdom and understanding of God.
Proverbs 2
A man with wisdom cannot lack knowledge and be without understanding. Wisdom, knowledge and understanding cannot be separated. What you do not know will not work for you. Also, whatever it is that fail to work for you can work against you. In life, it is lack of wisdom, knowledge and understanding that will make a man with a loaded gun in his pocket and being chased around by ordinary one with an ordinary table-knife. Are you an acclaimed believer with power yet living as a victim of lack of wisdom, knowledge and understanding, running away from enemy with table knife at hand? The word stated in Psalm 49:20, “A man who is in honor, yet does not understand is like beasts that perish.” The word of the psalmist identifies one with power and being chased around by a powerless one. It is a case of lack of knowledge.
Hosea 4:6, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…” Clearly, many claims to know God but not true because they only know about God. Ones that know about God will lack knowledge. Do you lack knowledge? Knowledge is not scarce but, man is scarce from finding knowledge. Knowledge is available for anyone who cares to find it. Today get to know God with understanding. Proverbs 2:5, “Then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.” Seek the knowledge, wisdom and understanding of God and the fear of the Lord will not elude you. Based upon all the evil and wickedness that takes place through the whole world today, we can clearly see that man no longer have the fear of God dwelling on the inside of man. It is a testimony to the fact that knowledge is not common and it is hardly implemented in the face of confronting challenges.
Do you know God? Are you one that is engaging the pressing challenges of your life with knowledge? God testifies that He knows His goodness towards us when He spoke, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” (Jeremiah 29:11) Regardless of how difficult and challenging your situation is, what you know about the promises of God across the pages of the Bible will give you the knowing edge in the face of confronting evil challenges of the world.
Today, take to the word of Proverbs 2:10-14, “When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you, to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things, from those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness; who rejoice in doing evil, and delight in the perversity of the wicked…”
Prayer for today: Ask for God for knowledge, wisdom and understanding from Him.