[Friday's Devotional] - Behind all wisdom is God

And the inhabitants of this coastland [the Israelites and their neighbors] will say in that day, See! This is what comes to those in whom we trusted and hoped, to whom we fled for help to deliver us from the king of Assyria! But we, how shall we escape [captivity and exile]?
Isaiah 20:6 [AMP]

This was a declaration by God about the future of the Israelites and their neighbours because they trusted and depended on Egypt and Ethiopia.

Today, do not depend on your own wisdom or the flesh i.e. the strengths and wisdom of man or other people or things.  What will happen if the money, person, friend, bank, job, health system, pension scheme, etc, you depended on is not there?

In this modern world, we tend to depend on advancement in technology and everything that shows and glorifies man’s wisdom and power. Yes all these things are helpful and good. But we should never forget that behind all we can do and all there is, there is God!

Have you never heard a farmer who doesn’t know God boasting about how he has worked hard, used his farming skills, applied the latest technology and invested his money to produce a bumper harvest and because of all this, he is successful?  Does he not know that without rain, water, air, soil, sunlight, etc, all his wisdom is in vain?  Does it not “click” in his mind that for him to have the energy, strength and breath to do all he does everyday, it is God’s grace at play?

Is it not plainly clear to him that this is precisely what God is saying in the “parable” in Isaiah 10:15 below?

Shall the axe boast itself against him who chops with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against him who wields it back and forth?  As if a rod should wield those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift itself up as if it were not wood [but a man of God]!

Read the entire Bible or just the Book of Job and the message is the same.  Sometimes when people can’t see this in the Good News Book, God permits certain things to happen – not to teach them a lesson, but that we might seek and find Him for His desire is for all to know that He loves us and wants to give us protection.

Never boast in who you are or what you have. If you must boast then boast in what God has done in your life. Give Him all the praise and glory for He will never share His glory with anybody!

Farai Mutsambiwa

Read the Bible in a year: Proverbs 22:7–16, Isaiah 20:1-23:18, 2 Corinthians 11:1–15