In the Word: His Word Gives Sweet Wisdom

Welcome to Hope Mommies’ In the Word devotionals. It is our desire that this series will aid you in getting in the Bible for yourself and discovering the joy that comes from hearing from God through the pages of His Word.

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“I have more understanding than all my teachers,
for your testimonies are my meditation.
I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.”
-Psalm 119:99-100

READ:

Neither position nor age is the determinant or giver of wisdom. If you have met someone after loss who has blessed your soul with his or her wisdom—whether younger or older—have no question about how you may gain the same wealth. You may have it for your very own.

By making the Word of God the dominant focus of your thoughts and preserving it in your soul through the way you live, watch God work in you to increasingly know and desire what is good. Say with the Psalmist, “I do not turn aside from your rules, for You have taught me” (Psalm 119:102). As you keep the Word of God close, find yourself saying along with the Psalmist that no one mere person is the guardian of wisdom. Directly to Scripture we must go.

The Word of God is sweet because it always draws us to the God we need—the God our souls were made to know. As we know Him more, we learn the wisdom of His ways. Even though we cannot see Him, He has not forgotten. He is not absent even when He feels far. And even though we do not have Him here on earth in the same way as we will have Him in heaven, we do have Him personally through the sweet treasure of His Word and the Holy Spirit who applies the Word to our souls.

When you desire to hear from God, go to His Word. Search it out as you would the richest treasure. Apply its sweetness to everything in you that cries and aches. Become wiser than the threats your soul faces in grief by learning from the final, authoritative source of wisdom.

REFLECT:

• Where have you found yourself turning for wisdom in the midst of your grief apart from God and His Word?
• How can you face the threats of your soul today by clinging to the wisdom found in God’s Word?

JOURNAL:

Read through Psalm 119 and make a list of the blessings that come from knowing God through His Word.

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