God’s Wisdom Protects Us – (Proverbs 2:10-15)

God’s Wisdom Protects Us – (Proverbs 2:10-15)

Daily Proverbs

When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you, to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things, from those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness; who rejoice in doing evil, and delight in the perversity of the wicked; whose ways are crooked, and who are devious in their paths.

Daily Bible Study
As we walk in the guidance of the Lord, through submission to the Holy Spirit, God performs a work in our hearts transforming us from the inside out. As we grow in the knowledge of God’s word, the Bible, we gain wisdom. Wisdom that not only helps us to better recognize evil; but we also gain protection because we build up godly discernment. God’s gift of wisdom combined with our faith in Jesus, helps us to recognize and avoid those who would commit evil. Godly wisdom helps us to avoid the dangerous consequences evil can bring to us and those around us. Moreover, by submitting to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, God directs our paths away from those who would entice us into rebellion against God. We have to remember we live in a fallen world, a world at enmity with God.

A world influenced by wickedness and rebellion and a world that would like to push God out of society and worship self and wickedness over all else. And those who do not follow Christ our under the influence of Satan, who is the power behind the world systems as they stand today. The Apostle Paul calls Satan, “the prince of the power of the air,” because he is the major influence behind the world’s thinking which includes the world’s philosophies, ideologies, social trends and movements. And because of the darkness this world is in, we have to rely on the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the discernment He has given to us. We do so in order to walk as the Lord leads us in this fallen world. We submit to the guidance of the Holy Spirit in order to carry out God’s will for our lives, which in turn helps to spread the Gospel of Salvation in Christ alone to those who are lost.