PrayerBits for Thursday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
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Thursday

Scripture lesson: Proverbs 8:1-4;22-31 Wisdom

Time to Reflect: How seriously to take this personification of wisdom can distract us from the message. Wisdom is not a demi-god but this passage is simply trying to make us to recognize the value of wisdom and rationality, and that the universe is rational. In our modern scientific world we're seeing how amazingly rational it is ? and the limits of our understanding and wisdom.

Moving Through the Day: Praise and thank God for a rational creation and ask for wisdom on our part.

Scripture:  

Proverbs 8:1-4;22-31

8Does not wisdom call,
and does not understanding raise her voice?
²On the heights, beside the way,
at the crossroads she takes her stand;
³beside the gates in front of the town,
at the entrance of the portals she cries out:
⁴?To you, O people, I call,
and my cry is to all that live.

²²The Lord created me at the beginning of his work,
the first of his acts of long ago.
²³Ages ago I was set up,
at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
²⁴When there were no depths I was brought forth,
when there were no springs abounding with water.
²⁵Before the mountains had been shaped,
before the hills, I was brought forth?
²⁶when he had not yet made earth and fields,
or the world?s first bits of soil.
²⁷When he established the heavens, I was there,
when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
²⁸when he made firm the skies above,
when he established the fountains of the deep,
²⁹when he assigned to the sea its limit,
so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth, ³⁰then I was beside him, like a master worker;
and I was daily his delight,
rejoicing before him always,
³¹rejoicing in his inhabited world
and delighting in the human race.