[Friday's Devotional] - God is the source of Wisdom

God is the source of Wisdom   The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom Proverbs 9:10 [NIV]   "Trust in the Lord with all your heart And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge him And he will make your paths straight"  Proverbs 3:5 [NIV]   If you go to a bookshop, the chances are there will be quite a large section of self-help books advising you how to make a success of your life through diet, exercise, meditation techniques and more.  Proverbs may sound like another set of "how-to"s, but if you look at the book as a whole, rather than as a set of unrelated fragments, you will see that wise living cannot be separated from God.  While some proverbs observe the hard facts of life – that bribes are effective, for instance, or that money does buy friends of a kind – the book never for a moment endorses success techniques that involve immorality.   Wisdom starts with the fear of God.  This does not mean a Victorian style fear of despotic parent, but a right acknowledgement of who God is and a willingness to learn and to do what is right. I wonder if anyone ever attains Wisdom – finding the knowledge of God (2:5) – or whether it is an aspiration we can spend our whole life trying to achieve? Mairi Mowbray     Twitter Website Copyright © 2016 St. Matthews & St. Oswalds Church, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email as a subscriber to the Daily Devotionals Our mailing address is: St. Matthews & St. Oswalds Church 1a New Street Rugby, Warwickshire CV22 7BE United Kingdom Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list Want to be added to our mailing list? - sign up here!