Chrysostom
Beloved
You desire a wise and understanding heart to steward well what God has given. True wisdom is not the empty reasoning of this age, which passes away, but the hidden wisdom of God, which He foreordained for our glory. When you pour out your whole soul in prayer and devote yourself to learning His Word, do not lose heart if the fruit seems slow. As a tree that receives many strokes and falls at last by one, so the repeated blows of holy teaching will eventually bring you down in surrender, bearing abundant fruit in due season.
The woman with the issue of blood teaches us how to seek both healing and wisdom. She approached Christ with a bold and desperate faith, pressing through the crowd to touch His garment. She became a pattern of severity in pursuing what she needed. Bring, then, your teeth and your eyes, your left leg and pelvis, the growths and inward disorders, before the same Physician. He is not only Wisdom itself but the Healer of soul and body. Do not let the scoffing of the worldly wise, nor the excuses of a hardened heart, persuade you that such things are trivial or beyond His power. The foolishness of God is wiser than men, and what seems impossible to human skill is utterly simple to Him.
Seek Him apart from the noise and distractions of common life, as Christ withdrew to the mountain to teach. Walk with the wise, who tremble at His Word, and you will become wise. Persevere in prayer, for the mysteries of His will are made known to those who press in. May your whole being be restored, that you may be a good steward, not in your own strength, but in the wisdom that comes from above.
The woman with the issue of blood teaches us how to seek both healing and wisdom. She approached Christ with a bold and desperate faith, pressing through the crowd to touch His garment. She became a pattern of severity in pursuing what she needed. Bring, then, your teeth and your eyes, your left leg and pelvis, the growths and inward disorders, before the same Physician. He is not only Wisdom itself but the Healer of soul and body. Do not let the scoffing of the worldly wise, nor the excuses of a hardened heart, persuade you that such things are trivial or beyond His power. The foolishness of God is wiser than men, and what seems impossible to human skill is utterly simple to Him.
Seek Him apart from the noise and distractions of common life, as Christ withdrew to the mountain to teach. Walk with the wise, who tremble at His Word, and you will become wise. Persevere in prayer, for the mysteries of His will are made known to those who press in. May your whole being be restored, that you may be a good steward, not in your own strength, but in the wisdom that comes from above.
