Wisdom and Your Character   THURSDAY OCT. 6
	Proverbs 1:7-9 (GNB) To have knowledge, you must first have reverence for the LORD. Stupid people have no respect for wisdom and refuse to learn. My child, pay attention to what your father and mother tell you. Their teaching will improve your character as a handsome turban or a necklace improves your appearance. If you are one that is given to valuing and applying godly wisdom to your life, it will inevitably reflect in your character and the manner in which you govern your life. Your character will be admired and appealing to others and your life will be preserved and prolonged because of the path of integrity that you have chosen to walk in, Prov.2:20-22. People who reject wisdom and live their lives waywardly cut short their own lives with their own hands. When godly wisdom affects your character, you will avoid the traps of making wrong decisions and associating yourself with the wrong people. In the Good News Bible, Proverbs 2:11-19 says, your insight and understanding will protect you and prevent you from doing the wrong thing. They will keep you away from people who stir up trouble by what they say--- those who have abandoned a righteous life to live in the darkness of sin, those who find pleasure in doing wrong and who enjoy senseless evil, unreliable people who cannot be trusted. You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk, who is faithless to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows. If you go to her house, you are traveling the road to death. To go there is to approach the world of the dead. No one who visits her ever comes back. He never returns to the road to life. Your character will not be offensive and your life will not be destroyed by wrong decisions and by associating with the wrong company. The grace to value and apply godly wisdom to your life is upon you today. PRAYER FOCUS: Ask the Lord to help you give more value to wisdom and to help you apply wisdom more liberally to the way you live your life.
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