Thurs.’s Devo - Where Can Wisdom Be Found

Read: Job 28:1-30:31; 2 Corinthians 2:12-17; Psalm 42:1-11; Proverbs 22:7 Job gave a detailed description of man’s way of finding the secret riches in the earth, but no one knows where to find wisdom or knowledge. (They obviously didn’t have the Bible or the internet!) We have so many ways to obtain knowledge but wisdom only comes from God. *** Job explains that everything God made works thorough his wisdom. We get wisdom by fearing the Lord and forsaking evil. *** Job remembers back before his loss when God was taking care of him and God was his friend. (Little does Job know that God is still taking care of him and is still his friend.) *** Job remembers the joy of having his children around him and being esteemed as a respected leader in his community. His words of wisdom meant something and helped people. He was known for his honesty. He was compassionate to the poor and needy. *** Now he is mocked by those who society cast off as fools. He says that God has humbled him. He feels depressed and hopeless. He prays, but God appears not to hear. He feels like God has cast him off as nothing. People count him as worthless. *** Little does Job realize he has been promoted by God to be an example to heaven and earth as a man who will not abandon his honor of God. *** In Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, Paul reports about his journeys to Troas and Macedonia and the opportunity they had to share the good news. He compares sharing the gospel like spreading perfume. We are the fragrance of God to the world. To the unsaved, it smells like death, but to the ones who accept the truth, we smell like life-giving perfume. *** Paul explains the difference of a true evangelist. They don’t preach for money or self-gain but with sincerity and with God’s authority because they know that God is watching. It is all for Him. *** Lord, may our walk today spread the aroma of heaven everywhere we go. May our eyes be open to hearts of others and our purpose here on earth. It is not for us that we live, it is for You, Lord.