Day 26

Job 26-29.  “Where to Find Wisdom”

         Mankind can achieve great things.  Does that make him wise?  Do years of schooling and academic degrees make a man wise?  If a man is worth millions of dollars does that make him wise?
         The answer to all of these questions is no.  True wisdom is found in one realization, and Job and many other Bible writers give the same answer.  It is found in the “fear of the LORD” (28:28).
         Fearing the LORD is the understanding of who God is.  We recognize His power as we call Him Creator and Judge.  We gratefully respect Him as we identify Him as our Heavenly Father and seek to worship, please Him, and turn from evil.
         True wisdom makes things so clear.  There are days I hear the world claim some act of wisdom that to me does not seem like even common sense.  Perhaps that is what the Apostle Paul meant when he stated that God has made the world’s philosophers, scholars, and brilliant debaters all look foolish and has shown their wisdom to be useless nonsense (1 Cor. 1:20).  Job had discovered that fact as well.

General Questions for each day:
Summarize the day’s Bible passage in your own words.
What thoughts, actions, attitudes or beliefs are addressed in the passage?
How is the Holy Spirit leading you to apply this passage to your life today?