Daily Reflections, Friday, May 29, 2009

Today's Scripture: Proverbs 4:7

Do you know of someone who started to build a house but couldn’t finish it? Sometimes this happens because of circumstances beyond a person’s control, but sometimes it happens because of laziness or indifference.

Years ago, a church that had a Christian School built a huge addition, but never finished it. It sat empty for many years and finally became such a financial burden that the church sold the property and relocated.

We need to be careful that we aren’t doing this same type of thing in our Christian lives.

Let’s look at some things God says we should be filling our spiritual house with.

James 1:5 states, “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”

Before my Mother died, she cared for her Alzheimer’s-diseased husband. One time when they were about to board a plane, they both got in line, but when my Mother turned around her husband was gone. The plane had to take off without them. She said, “I didn’t know what to do. I had no idea where my husband was. I started to panic but then I remembered the verse in James about anyone lacking wisdom needs to ask for it from God. So that’s what I did and it was only about an hour or so later that we were able to find him and take off on a different flight.”

Do you need some of this precious building material called wisdom? Ask for it and you will receive it.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth. –C.S. Lewis