LISTEN TO THE WORDS OF THE WISE!

PROVERBS 22: 17-19

"LISTEN TO THE WORDS OF THE WISE; apply your heart to my instruction. It is good to keep the sayings in your heart and always ready on your lips. I am teaching you today so that you will trust in the Lord."

They say we have two ears so that we can listen twice as much as speaking with our one tongue.

Perhaps the most important part of listening is whom you listen to! Spending time with a fool will not make you wise. Spending time with the Word of God and His Prophets will be very instructive. This is particularly true if we apply our heart to God's instruction. We should commit to memory and keep in our hearts the wisdom of the Lord so that it will fall from our lips at the right moment. With this teaching as our foundational truth we will learn to trust in the Lord!

One Truth Today is dedicated to this very premise. We take just one of the wise and instructive scriptures from the Word every day and we bring it your attention. The question, is there any one listening? Is anyone applying the wisdom of God to their heart? Is this instructive to the soul? Are they more likely to be at your beck and call and fall from your lips? The reason for any of this is to teach us to trust in the Lord. LISTEN TO THE WORDS OF WISDOM!

Any time you spend in the Word of God is instructive and useful. The more time you spend, the more you learn and the wiser you become. If you spend time with the wise, you become more like them. The same is true of righteousness, mercy and love. The more you become like Jesus Christ the Lord God the wiser you will be. We all have the choice of how we spend our time and energy and it is not difficult to ascertain what appeals to the individual. Where do you spend you time, and energy. Is it something valuable? If your heart is full of the instruction of the Lord and you apply it to your every day life you will be counted among the wise. You will trust the Lord.

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY!

REVELATION 3: 17

"You say, I am rich. I have everything that I want. I do not need a thing. You do not realize that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked."

Our One Truth Today is directed at those who take pride in their wealth and possessions, and yet are unaware of their true state with God. We all know of an example of someone who depends on their wealth to protect and save them. They may be a king or politician, perhaps one of the 100 wealthiest people in the world. At a minimum they would be millionaires and at the maximum multi-billionaires. If they have never opened their heart and invited Jesus Christ the Lord God into their hearts and accepted Him as their Lord and Master, then they are dead men walking! They may surround themselves with the best possessions of this world, but they are unaware of their true condition and in reality they have nothing!

They do not understand that they came into this world with nothing and they will leave it with nothing. The have not grasped that it will profit them nothing if they gained the whole world and yet lost their eternal soul. They say they are rich but they are poor in spirit. They say they have everything they want, but they will be eternally separated from the God who could Save them. They say they do not need a thing, but they are ignorant about their eternal soul and the need for Salvation from their sins. In fact if they could see themselves from God's prospective they are wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked sinners who have condemned themselves to eternal damnation because of their choices for wealth as opposed to Salvation.

God knows all things that we do and in particular if we accept or reject Him. You can not be a little pregnant, a little sterile, or a little Christian. Either you are on fire for the Lord or you are cold and lacking in spirit. The Lord spits the lukewarm out of His mouth. His advice is to buy gold from Him that has been purified by fire. Buy white garments from God so you will not be ashamed of your nakedness. Receive the Lord's ointment for your eyes so that you will be able to see. Be diligent and turn from your indifference. Repent and turn around from the path you are on and walk the straight and narrow path that leads to God. When you say you are rich and have everything that you need, those are the words of a fool. If you do not have the Lord.

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY!