Today’s passage is Proverbs 8:1-21. Solomon personifies wisdom and has her call out. She says what is true and right. Choose her rather than silver and gold. Fearing the lord means hating evil and that’s what wisdom does. All her seek her find her. Her fruit surpasses all wealth but she gives prosperity to those who love her.
Do you open your ears to wisdom?
Is your desire for wisdom, understanding, prudence and discernment greater than your desire for the world?
Do you believe that wisdom is worth more than money?
I am calling out for wisdom, for the right things to say to my daughter Erika today. I learned that she quit her job three weeks ago! I don’t know why she did it. I will learn that today. Please pray for me and her.
She worked hard at chef school for over a year.
I paid for everything. She was the top student.
The chef-teachers gave her great recommendations. One chef offered her the job in his new restaurant. That’s where she was working. She loved her job.
I thought she had changed at last. She has had a suffering life.
She said she believes in Jesus but maybe she hasn’t met him really.
Today I will visit her and ask.
Her son is coming to live with her because his father has divorced his wife and that family is breaking up.
My daughter was preparing to welcome her son and raise him during his teenage years.
She had registered him in his new high school. Now he is going to a mother who has no job.
My daughter has not changed her style of life since her own high school time.
She drinks and smokes and reacts wildly and unwisely in difficult situations.
She keeps choosing a poor attitude to her circumstances.
She always needs money, she always needs a job. She is my hard trainer.
I need God’s wisdom today.
I did not anticipate this situation with my daughter.
I thought I would be visiting a woman on a new path in her life.
Instead I have the same situation I have had for 20 years.
My response needs to be different this time.
Always before I did one of two things.
I either gave money to bail her out of debt or pay for school or buy a computer or … whatever. Or I turned my back on her and left her to deal with it herself.
After I came to Wooridle, however, I tried to preach the gospel to her.
She started to go to church again but she didn’t really change.
She added a little bit of church to her life but otherwise kept going the same old way.
I am the parent, this is my fault. What in me needs to change in order to help my daughter?
How do I bring the Lord to her today? How can wisdom help me, help us?
Application: to call out loudly to the Lord. To say the sinner’s prayer with my daughter and have her invite Jesus into her heart, mind and life.
Lord, help me hear your wisdom. Let me not abandon my daughter to her wrong ways. Give me your love to love her with.
