Eternally

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
ETERNALLY
Prov 2:6-8
6 For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. 7 He holds victory in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless, 8 for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.
NIV
I do not understand how anyone could refute the simple fact that the Lord gives wisdom. I think I am a shining example of such generosity. In and of myself have never much been known as being very wise, or smart for that matter. But for whatever reason God has decided to give me wisdom, at list in his ways. I am not even sure if I what any of the world’s wisdom, or wisdom in the ways of the world, I should say. No, I think I will just stick with wisdom from him about him and knowledge about who he is, how is interacts with his creation and how I am to live. I believe I have experienced so much victory already in my life, since I accepted Christ, I am not sure if I should expect anymore, yet I know more is to come. Is that prideful to say I have had so much victory because that would be assuming I am upright? I am not sure that upright means sinless, as much as it means to walk a straight path with God, not ever giving up on my relationship with me. I do know that I can walk blameless, or in the sense of the original word, rendered innocent because it is God who has rendered me blameless, not I. And as such, being rendered blameless by him I am protected by his shield. I can stand behind his shield, which will never fail, and be kept safe from those flaming arrows of the evil one. Again, I cannot understand why anyone would what to be alone in this world, without the protection of God’s shield. Is it because they love the darkness? Is it because they what nothing more than to please every desire of their heart, which is inclined to evil all the time? I think I am actually no different in the basic idea, but I made a choice to resist that and to follow God and accept being made new, to be born again. I am so thankful that he guards the course of my life and he protects the way I travel. How could I be where I am if he had not guarded the course of my life? How could I do what I do if he has not been protecting my way? I am convinced if God has not been guarding and protecting me and the way I live, I would have been dead a long time ago, and that death would have been without the grace of God. I would not only have experienced the first death but also the second. But that is not the case, for he has provided me with a way to escape the second death. He has given me wisdom, knowledge and understanding in the meaning of uprightness and being rendered blameless through the blood of Jesus Christ. He has provided his shield to me and he has been will continue to guard my life in him. How grateful can I be? Eternally! How faithful can I be? Eternally!