SCRIPTURE: Proverbs 3:7-8 NLT Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the Lord and turn away from evil. Then you will have healing for your body and strength for your bones.
THOUGHT: These verses point out the difference between our own wisdom and the wisdom of God, and promise the latter will lead to healing for the body and strength for the bones — and who doesn’t need that? But how to know the difference?
The simple answer is that when you’ve locked onto the wisdom of God, it will steer you into a holy respect for God’s authority in your life and away from anything that smacks of evil. And we know what God considers evil if we only got as far as the 10 Commandments.
The longer answer (or the one that requires more time to think through anyway) is that our hearts have this incredible propensity to lie to us when there is something we want that God doesn’t. The Old Testament prophet Jeremiah claims “the heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? (Jer. 17:9 NIV)” My own translation might say something like going inside yourself deeper and deeper to try to understand right and wrong won’t get you very far. Instead, study and understand what God says about right and wrong, then do it, trusting that his reasons are for your good. It’s no small matter if you hope for healing for your body and strength for your bones!
PRAYER: Oh God, I have found I can trust my heart much more with you invited in, leaned upon, and depended upon to fill me with your Spirit each day. Even then, my heart wants to trick and deceive and argue with your Word. So, rather than being impressed with my own wisdom, give me deep respect and obedience from a heart that’s learned the hard way so many times that your ways are for my good.
Amy released a full-length book in early 2021, Walking When You’d Rather Fly: Meditations on Faith After the Fall. Maybe you’d like to check it out here.
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