The Monday Morning Devo for February 9, 2015
Last week we talked about using the peace or lack of peace we feel in our hearts to determine where we should go. Or what we should do.
Today and for the next few weeks, I want to stay on this subject. Or really the big overarching subject of discernment–sensing and determining what God is saying, or doing or wanting…
Again, in the devo from last week I mentioned a phrase near the end stating:
“If you can’t discern your heart, if it’s dull or you’re used to following it, I think general wisdom is a good backup plan.”
Today I want rethink this a bit, the idea that general wisdom is a backup plan when your heart isn’t cultivated to feel or discern a situation.
This morning I started a devotional on God’s wisdom. The first verse it took me to was Ps. 51:6 where David says, “You desire truth in the inward parts or inward being,” then continues with “You teach me wisdom in the secret heart.”
Then it took me to Ps. 90:12, where Moses says, “Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.”
And lastly, I went to Prov. 8:12, where Solomon writes, “I, Wisdom, live together with good judgment. I know where to discover knowledge and discernment.”
So in these three verses, I see the wisdom of God being directly integrated with the heart; congruent with good judgment and discernment.
So let me rephrase my statement last week about if your heart is dull, turn to wisdom. It seems that the heart can grow in wisdom, grow in God’s wisdom, His ways, His nature. And perhaps as the heart grows in understanding God, it will be able to dynamically sense and feel what God would want for us in a given situation.
So this, week, my prayer for you and for me, is that we would grow our heart in the wisdom of God. And in that growing up into Him, we can hear His whisper telling us where to go and what to do.
Let’s Pray: Heavenly Father, would You help us this week, as we read your word, even just one verse a day, to better understand your ways–that our hearts would mature and grow in its ability to discern yea or nay.
In Jesus’ name. Amen.