Well good morning everyone and welcome back to the Messy Masterpiece Podcast for Chad and Tori.

We are thankful to be devoting ourselves to Lord with you daily. So Tori and I are excited about

this week's devotionals. We are doing another set of devotionals from the Bible app and so there's

going to be a link in the description to go download this plan to follow along with us.

And I just want to give a little preface. I guess two prefaces. Number one, we posted a long

form episode on Saturday about pain and suffering and where God is in that. So for free to check that out.

But the more important preface is just want to ask you to hang in there with me as I read the first

part of this devotional and then Tori is going to pick up right after that as it's a little bit

longer. And so I don't want to read too fast that way you guys actually aren't, you know,

let's not just check off the box of hey I did my devotional today and let's actually devote

ourselves to the Lord. Okay, the name of this devotional is gaining godly wisdom and part one is

what is wisdom. If you look up the definition of wisdom you'll find this knowledge of what is true

or right coupled with just judgment as to action. We can have all the knowledge in the world

stored in our brains. But if we don't know how to apply it and move the information to action,

we don't actually have wisdom. Basically, we can know more than the average person,

but if we don't apply what we know appropriately, we're foolish. The first and most important thing

we need to know about wisdom is that it comes from God. Psalm 111 verse 10 tells us that the beginning

of true wisdom is found when we fear the Lord. And then it goes on to say that we'll grow in

wisdom when we obey God. That makes a lot of sense, doesn't it? Most parents expect their children

to obey them. Why you ask? Because they see the path ahead when the child doesn't. As children

obey their parents, they grow in wisdom and learn what their parents advise them to do was

ultimately for their own good. The same is true with our Heavenly Father. He sees what's ahead

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