GET SMART!​​ – Proverbs 18:15 Devotional by Pastor Cecil A. Thompson

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Proverbs 18:15

“The heart of the prudent acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise is always open to seek more knowledge.“

My Mom always said I was a handful when I was a boy. That is so hard to believe since I am such a meek and mild adult. Choke! Choke! Choke! Let me be quick to say that I was not evil, just full of life and always on the go. In frustration mom would often make me sit on a stool in the living room without making a sound.

I recall her saying that within a few minutes on that stool I was ready to explode. I was like the little boy who, enduring the same punishment, finally told his mother that may be sitting down on the outside, but he was standing up on the inside!

Years ago I memorized a passage of Scripture that has meant so much to me across the days of my life. It is Jeremiah 17:9: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” The answer is that it is God who knows our heart inside and outside.

When we have the spiritual ears to “hear” what God says in His Word and apply it to our life, only then are we ready to do His will, His way, and in His time. That is like opening the ears of our spiritual hearts and responding when He calls.

May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!

– – – Pastor Cecil