Silas
Beloved of All
Your prayer rises with a hunger that reflects the very heart of wisdom you are asking for. When you cry out for understanding and lift your voice for discernment, you are already on the path described in Proverbs, seeking her as silver and searching for her as hidden treasure. The promise stands that then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. That fear is not a cowering dread but the starting point, the principal thing. It is a reverent awe that hates evil, turns from pride, and chooses the way of life over the seductive voice that forgets the covenant.
You have anchored this request in the cross, and that is exactly where true wisdom is found. Not in the wisdom of the world, which by its own brilliance could never know God and always comes to nothing. The message that seems foolish to the proud, Jesus Christ and Him crucified, is the very power and wisdom of God. In Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. When your family opens the Scriptures together, when those apps become windows for the Word to dwell in you richly, you are not just gathering facts. Knowledge can fill the mind while leaving the walk untouched, but wisdom is the proper application of that knowledge. It builds the house and preserves the soul. It is better than rubies, and the path it carves leads you away from the snares that tear families apart.
That wisdom from above is identifiable by its fruit. You have prayed for your family to have godly conversations and for your local region to be convicted. True wisdom shows itself in a life that is pure, peaceable, gentle, and full of good fruits. It does not descend from an earthly, sensual source that breeds envy and strife. When you seek the welfare of your city, when you open your eyes not only to your own pressing needs, unpacking, routines, finances, health, but also to the souls of students, workers, and local leaders, that is the mind of Christ at work. It is a wisdom that looks not only on its own things but also on the needs of others.
Your request for a wall of fire and angelic protection fits perfectly within a life of wisdom. Walking in the fear of the Lord is to dwell in the secret place of the Most High. Wisdom preserves; she keeps you. As you open the Word and crave its pure milk, you are sanctified by truth while kept from the evil one. The Spirit of adoption crying “Abba, Father” within you is the seal that you are heirs indeed, and that same Spirit is the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him.
So continue with confidence. You are not working for your salvation but working out what God has already placed within you, approaching the task with holy trembling at the magnitude of His grace. The Lord who is pleased when His people ask for wisdom over riches or fame will not only grant the understanding you seek but will also supply every practical need according to His riches in glory. He will make the family conversations bear fruit, establish the work of your hands in this new routine, and cause the simple, powerful story of the cross to be heard in your region as faith comes by hearing. Your plea for your family and your city rests on the sure foundation of the One who by wisdom founded the earth and by understanding established the heavens. He will do it.
You have anchored this request in the cross, and that is exactly where true wisdom is found. Not in the wisdom of the world, which by its own brilliance could never know God and always comes to nothing. The message that seems foolish to the proud, Jesus Christ and Him crucified, is the very power and wisdom of God. In Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. When your family opens the Scriptures together, when those apps become windows for the Word to dwell in you richly, you are not just gathering facts. Knowledge can fill the mind while leaving the walk untouched, but wisdom is the proper application of that knowledge. It builds the house and preserves the soul. It is better than rubies, and the path it carves leads you away from the snares that tear families apart.
That wisdom from above is identifiable by its fruit. You have prayed for your family to have godly conversations and for your local region to be convicted. True wisdom shows itself in a life that is pure, peaceable, gentle, and full of good fruits. It does not descend from an earthly, sensual source that breeds envy and strife. When you seek the welfare of your city, when you open your eyes not only to your own pressing needs, unpacking, routines, finances, health, but also to the souls of students, workers, and local leaders, that is the mind of Christ at work. It is a wisdom that looks not only on its own things but also on the needs of others.
Your request for a wall of fire and angelic protection fits perfectly within a life of wisdom. Walking in the fear of the Lord is to dwell in the secret place of the Most High. Wisdom preserves; she keeps you. As you open the Word and crave its pure milk, you are sanctified by truth while kept from the evil one. The Spirit of adoption crying “Abba, Father” within you is the seal that you are heirs indeed, and that same Spirit is the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him.
So continue with confidence. You are not working for your salvation but working out what God has already placed within you, approaching the task with holy trembling at the magnitude of His grace. The Lord who is pleased when His people ask for wisdom over riches or fame will not only grant the understanding you seek but will also supply every practical need according to His riches in glory. He will make the family conversations bear fruit, establish the work of your hands in this new routine, and cause the simple, powerful story of the cross to be heard in your region as faith comes by hearing. Your plea for your family and your city rests on the sure foundation of the One who by wisdom founded the earth and by understanding established the heavens. He will do it.
