You're only as Wise as Your Next Decision

How could Solomon, a man of such great wisdom and the author of Proverbs, have strayed from faithfulness into the folly of idolatry?

Consider a few of the compromises that marked his reign.
Deuteronomy 17 tells Israel’s kings not to return to Egypt. Solomon married the daughter of Pharaoh. The law said not to acquire many horses and chariots so that the king’s trust would not be in his army.
1 Kings 10 tells us that Solomon had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen.
The law warned the king not to amass great quantities of gold and silver. Solomon received 666 talents of gold each year and “made silver as common as stone” in Jerusalem.
But his greatest weakness was his passion for foreign wives. The law told kings not to marry foreign women. Solomon blew by that instruction. 1 Kings 11:3 says, “He had 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart.”

What can we learn from Solomon’s mistakes? We learn that wisdom isn’t a badge you earn once and then get to wear for the rest of your life. You’re only as wise as your next decision. Don’t say, “I’m wise…look at all I’ve done in the past.” Show me your wisdom by your next choice. Prove your wisdom by fearing God today. None of can say, “Because of my past record, I am a man or woman of wisdom.” None of us can be proud and careless about seeking to know and obey God. We all need to grow in gaining and applying wisdom. Solomon’s story teaches us that knowledge isn’t enough. You can't know a lot of stuff to achieve. Great wisdom can never be separated from or replace obedience to God. It’s not enough to know wisdom; you have to live by it. Wisdom is expressed and it grows as we grow in it and apply it daily.
Proverbs 1:7 says, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.” In a way, that ties in with Solomon’s life. When he feared the LORD, he had true knowledge and wisdom. When he decided not to fear God, he became a fool. He was a man of great knowledge, he had written many words of wisdom, but the essential element of true wisdom—an awesome respect and fear before God—was missing. And he became an idolater. So why should we learn from a man whose life ended so poorly? The answer is that the wisdom of the book of Proverbs didn’t originate or end with Solomon. God is the author behind all this. And in Jesus, one “greater than Solomon” has come.
We don’t come to Proverbs to seek Solomon, we come to know and seek the wisdom of Jesus Christ. Solomon’s sin doesn’t disprove the truth of this book. If anything, it affirms it. Knowledge and wisdom begin and end with a right knowledge and fear of God.
If we seek this living God, we can both emulate Solomon’s wisdom and avoid his folly.

I'm a knight! :D

Pheww! I have been working on this one all week! I felt God really wanted me to focus on this subject because I fail to realize how important it is to keep God in my life. I didn't quite know how to do so but He gave me these verses to look to so I know exactly how! ENJOY!! (:

Ephesians 6:10-20
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
I shouldn’t keep trying to do things in my own strength. I am not strong enough on my own.
11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
If I surround myself with God, I will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.
12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Whenever someone is mean or rude or attacks me, I must consider they are simply in a battle of spiritual proportions. They are being used to bring me grief. I have to separate the person being used by the powers of darkness and realize the battle is with those dark powers, not the person himself. Then the person can be loved anyway, unconditionally. Because, like Jesus said, “Forgive them Father for they know not what they do.”
13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.
I need the whole armor, every piece, if I am going to be able to persevere in the battle. I need all of it for protection.
14 Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
Jesus is the truth. John 14:6 – Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” My righteousness is through Christ. He is righteous. He lives in me, therefore I have righteousness.
15 and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.
My feet must always be wearing the readiness given by the gospel of peace, prepared at all times to share the gospel, to give an answer for the hope that is in me.
16 In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;
Every minute of everyday, I must carry the shield of faith to be able to deflect the fiery darts that the enemy throws all day long such as the sins of the world. He wants to destroy me. My faith is my shield. It guards my heart all the time. If I let it down, my heart will be open for destruction.
17 and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,
The helmet guards my mind from evil thoughts. It protects me and reminds me to think of pure, lovely, wonderful things (Philippians 4:8). My sword is the Word. It is my weapon against all of the lies of the enemy. I must train with it, by reading and absorbing the truth, so I can use it with accuracy, aiming it exactly where it needs to go, not to destroy the person, but to destroy the lies of the enemy, to defeat his evil plans.
18 praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,
I need to pray all the time in the Spirit. I don’t quite know how to do this. If I am doing this, I’m not sure. But I know it’s imperative. I must learn how to do this. I think I do when things in my life get quite terrifying. But when things are good, I’m sure I let my guard down. What is praying in the Spirit? What does it look like?
19 and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel,
I must pray for words to utter the mystery of the gospel. I must pray for boldness to proclaim it. I'm sure it will be easy for me to do so because I'm very bold and talkitive! (: Its a mystery to those who don’t know the Lord.
20 for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.
I am an ambassador, a representative of God to boldly proclaim the gospel to the people I meet. I must speak the gospel all the time. I should never take it for granted, the call to share the gospel!!!


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Alright, so I am going to talk about 1 verse and 1 verse only in this blog of mine! You wanna know what the verse is? Well I'm not going to tell you yet! lol I am going to tell you a story that leads up to that verse popping out at me! Okay, so you all know I have a brother and sometimes he can push my buttons so hard I just want to explode and push his. lol But he is also a real giant instigator that really gets on my nerves. But every time he pushes my buttons, I start to push his and I always have to have the last word in every conversation we have. That's just me! But today was really bad and quite frankly, it was the last straw! I was done with it and was seriously thinking about going back to the problem I had in the beginning of everything! That is not what I really wanted to do, so I called my friend and he is one smart cookie and will listen to me whenever I need to vent I guess. Well he shared a verse with me and at first I was like oh whatever I will just try to handle it and maybe pray about it but that's about it. Well before platoons tonight, I went a grabbed my Bible and read it. Woo that's a good verse he gave me! And its true! You still wanna know what verse? okay I will tell you! It is Proverbs 15:1. It says: "A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make tempers flare." Yeah right there is the verse! As I was talking to him on the phone he told me this verse and I kept it in mind when I confronted Kyle about some things that is quite irritating to me and probably to him too. Well ya know what? That verse is actually speaking truth. I went to Kyle with calmness and open-minded and not trying to get more aggravation balled up and it actually resulted better than I thought it would. You see I used to go up to people I'm mad at with hateful words and anger, but I realized that it will just get even worse if I continue that way. So this verse is now like my favorite verse because it is already starting to work in my life and build my character of softness and kind words, if that makes sense! Well at least in my mind it does! so yeah! that's it! (:

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HAHA! I have no idea why I am writing this blog but I just feel like it. lol I wanted to write something, well type something and I don't know why I decided to come to my blog! But yeah I'm going to blog about my day! (: My day was fantastic! Church this morning was SUPER DUPER good (both services) (we went to starbucks for 1st service! yummy! And then we went to the mall and I got a purse for $2.00 and its super cute! lol And then we came home and Amanda died my hair! and boy oh boy, the people who are reading this, OMG my hair is back dark! I love it! (: I wanted some change! lol But yeah I kinda miss my mom. I want her to come home! :/ Oh well this week will go by fast! (: Well That;s all I think I'm going to blog about today! Hope everyone will have a good rest of the day or in some cases night. (: bye!

Daddy?

So I have always wondered why me? Why am I the one who doesn't have a father figure? Why, why, why? That question is never answered the way we want it but the way He wants it. My question is why does my dad have to leave me? My answer is because he is doesn't care about me or because he doesn't love me. But God's answer is because it will bring you closer to Me. This really didn't make sense to me until I began this relationship with God. I don't need a earthly father, well I do but it's not essential. I then began to realize that it doesn't matter when I don't see my dad or when I don't get to talk to him, because God, The ultimate Father will always be there and here and everywhere when I need Him. My life has really been horrible in the area of having a real "daddy". I am SO thankful that I have God. Psalm 68:5 "A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling." God is my father! This verse is really self-explanatory. But that is pretty much all I have about this, so far, but I will definitely have more! Thanks! (:

"The more I Seek you"

Okay so today was a really good day but kind of a bad news day. I'll start with the really good day part... So lately I have been seeking after God and was trying to build this relationship with Him, which was moving forward!! That is such a blessing because I have longed for this for a while and now it is finally coming true. It's just neat that everything is coming together and I can see the end of this road, heaven. Today we sang a song called "The more I Seek you" These words are incredible. They go something like "the more I seek you, the more I find you, and the more I find you, the more I love you." Its amazing how how God works in ways we would've never imagined because during the week I have just set my eyes on loving God and when I heard this song it was just mid blowing because throughout the past year, I have been searching for God wanting to find Him. The more I searched or "seek" Him, the more I found him and experienced Him working in me. And once I found Him, the more I really wanted to build this "intimacy relationship" with God. The song says "The more I find you, the more I love you." It is totally and absolutely true and I speak through experience as I just told you. Its incredible to see everything flow together like water from a hose! (:

Hosea

So today I read in Hosea. The book is pretty much about how Hosea leaves her husband and commits adultery and comes back asking for forgiveness. Her husband went to God and asked Him what we should do. God tells him to take her back and love her. She does this numerous times and every time he goes to God asking what he should do and every time God tells him to take her back and love her. I think the reason why she keeps doing it over and over again is because she knows he will take her back and love her everytime.
- I look at this story and I think its the same with us and God. We leave Him over and over again doing our daily/natural sins and yet we always come back to God and he always takes us back in and He always loves us. I look at my life and how this story pertains to me or what motives does my life represent in the story?
-My motives are in the WRONG spot. I always used to go back to God because I know He will always take me back and love me. I am kind of taking advantage or manipulating the thought. I should not do that by any means. I need to go to God with my sins because I am thankful to have Him in my life and that He does love me no matter what.You should maybe even take a look at your motives why are why not you go to God after you leave Him.