Thank You, Lord, For That Wisdom

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. James 1:5

A message from the Lord may take several forms: angels, a still small voice, sermons from a minister, counseling from an elder, a leaning one way or another from the Spirit, and of course there is bitter experience. When we ask of the Lord for wisdom, we might foolishly go the way we think best without guidance from the Lord and experience learning wisdom the hard way. I'm not sure there are any of us who could deny having been down the path of bitter experience now and again. It is at those times that we appreciate most the messages of wisdom that are much less painful.

A pastor in church delivers a sermon that imparts some of the wisdom of God, preventing you or me from going down a dark path to some more tough experience. We are glad and praise God. There but for the grace of God go I, we might say according to the old saying. Wisdom without the pain. We read a story in God's word and a still small voice speaks to us saying, "That's you, don't be that way!" We pray up some gratitude to the Lord for teaching us the less painful way. Then there are those other times when we are just too dense or stubborn to learn from anything but experience. We get the wisdom from the Lord either way, but... Ow!

I think all of us prefer the Lord's way to learning from our way of tough and painful experience, and may I say for all of us, "Thank You, Lord, for that wisdom!"

Bucky

P.S. Yes, today was Day 1 of the annual Rodeo Bible Camp. I have cooked the spuds and now rest in writing a little message. God bless all the campers today!