The Finest Dining

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
THE FINEST DINING
Prov 9:1-6
Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn out its seven pillars. 2 She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table. 3 She has sent out her maids, and she calls from the highest point of the city. 4 "Let all who are simple come in here!" she says to those who lack judgment. 5 "Come, eat my food and drink the wine I have mixed. 6 Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.
NIV
This is in the midst of the bright of day, standing on the highest point calling out, and it can be none other than the very word of God. Wisdom is God’s word and with the perfect number of God, seven. There is by far such great wisdom, true wisdom within his word. I admit without I certainly lack the proper judgment, even at times after accepting his word I still lacked proper judgment, but as the word develops, as I sit at her table, and eat and drink from this incredible meal of truth, I have been able to digest more of the word and leave behind those simple ways of just living for my own self, and have learned my life is more than me, it is about him. But it is not just one meal, one feeding, which will sustain my life. I have to stay at the table; I have to eat daily from the wisdom of God. If I do not it is way too easy to get up not completely full and find other food within the ways of the world. Food which is not good for me, which will harm by body, soul and spirit and it is plentiful and presumably free for the taking, but in fact it is not free, it will cost my life. No, I must stay each and every day at the table of my Lord, feasting upon his word, devouring it, consuming it so that I am overflowing with it, and then I must eat more. I need to stay full to the brim, so that I am not tempted by that seemingly tasty food elsewhere. I know that other food may look good, smell good and even taste delighted, but that is only for the moment fir in truth it is poison which will permeate my being until death overtakes me. The Word of God brings life to my bones, to my soul, and to my spirit. It feeds the very core of my being, my mind, the central place both temptation and understanding. Within my mind is the basics of my character, it is who I am, what makes me different from others, at least within the flesh. It may well be my spirit within the spiritual realm which differentiates me from other, but here I live in my body, my brain, my thoughts and feelings, my desires and my passions. Here is where understanding wisdom must begin; here is where I must fill up with the Word of God. The Word is the finest dining ever.