Daily Bread_August 23, 2013

Title: Four Things You Should Buy and Hold

Text:

Proverbs 23:22-24 (ESV)
²² Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
²³ Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
²⁴ The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

Observation:

There are some things that are worthy of buying and holding for a lifetime. There are four things that we should buy and hold; they are truth, wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

Proverbs 2:2-4 (NLT)
² Tune your ears to wisdom, and concentrate on understanding.
³ Cry out for insight, and ask for understanding.
⁴ Search for them as you would for silver; seek them like hidden treasures.

The wisest thing you will ever do in your life is to have the highest value and esteem for the truth. Be willing to pay the price for obtaining it, and never part ways with it; keep it safe. The same applies to the other three virtues.

Proverbs 4:7 (NLT)
⁷ Getting wisdom is the wisest thing you can do! And whatever else you do, develop good judgment.

Prayer:

Our Father in heaven, my dear Father, I pray for the wisdom and discipline to embrace truth, wisdom, instruction, and understanding, and to never part ways with them. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

Philippians 4:13 (NLT)
¹³ For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.

 

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Acts 6:4 (KJV)
⁴ But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

 

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