A Prayer to Get Wisdom

Your Daily Prayer

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0	Life Audio
0:13.3	A prayer to Get Wisdom by Meg Buker, read by Leo Martin.
0:18.6	The beginning of wisdom is this, Get Wisdom, though it will cost all you have, Get Understanding.
0:27.2	Proverbs 4.7
0:30.1	The frustration on my sweet daughter's face that she realized just how much math homework
0:35.6	she'd saved for the night before it was all due, tugged at my heart.
0:40.3	It's easy to fly through concepts we understand, but when the correct answers elude us, it's
0:46.8	hard.
0:49.1	Far beyond homework assignments, we have all held back tears in moments where we can't
0:54.8	understand what's happening to us.
0:58.3	Wisdom isn't an elective course.
1:02.1	Proverbs 4.7 simply states, Get it.
1:06.1	We're called to walk through life with wisdom.
1:10.2	Understanding requires pause.
1:13.5	When we're diligent to set aside daily time for the Lord, he is faithful to provide the
1:18.6	wisdom we need.
1:20.9	John Bloom explains it like this, The Bible puts up no wall of separation between our
1:25.7	intellect and faith.
1:27.2	What we're told not to lean on is our own understanding, meaning conclusions based primarily
1:33.9	on our own perceptions, because our own understanding simply will not bear the full weight of reality.
1:42.8	It was never intended to.
1:46.2	Through prayer, God's Word, and the people He's faithfully placed around us to speak to
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