Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Born with a Hole

Prayer – Lord, please give us wisdom and understanding that we would know You more completely. Please fill that empty hole in our hearts with Your love, wisdom, and understanding.


For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 1 Corinthians 1:21-25 NKJV

Meditate. Wisdom.

 

What is wisdom?

Words from God Himself, as spoken by Job are recorded in the book of Job.

Then He saw wisdom and declared it; He prepared it, indeed, He searched it out. And to man He said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, And to depart from evil is understanding.'  Job 28:27-28 NKJV

Respect or fear of the Lord is mentioned in several places in the Bible as a good starting place for understanding wisdom. With wisdom and respect for God we will have understanding of Him. To know Him is to love Him…and knowing God more each day is my goal.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. Proverbs 9:10 NKJV

 

There is a void—a hole—in everyone’s heart that can only be filled by God. We are born with that. People have even written books about this longing that we all have. There is an innate desire to have this emptiness filled up somehow. Some people fill that void by being obsessed, entertained, and amused by movies, sports, hobbies, or even their vocation. I think that it is with the wisdom of God that He gives us the desire to seek Him. Jesus gave some insight into seeking the kingdom of God in His Sermon on the Mount when He spoke to His disciples and a multitude of followers.

Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:31-34 NKJV Underlined for emphasis.)

Seek God to really know Him and allow Him to fill that hole in your heart with which you were born.

 

Verse of Salvation ~ But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Romans 10:8-10 NKJV

 

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