Doing Life In God’s World Right
FOLLOWING THE PATH OF WISDOM
This past Sunday, we bridged the gap between where we've been in Isaiah and where we're headed in the Book of James. We've been called to live in God's world, God's way, time and time again. But living in the world in this way is not our default setting. All of us are prone to go our own way and lean upon our own understanding. Even as believers, we still fight against this reflex. Into this struggle, the Book of Proverbs comes to us as a practical guide to living well in this world. But far from being a simple instruction manual, a collection of life hacks, or some "if you do A, you will always get B" system of cause and effect dependent upon our own efforts and works to realize, Proverbs is so much more. Because the wisdom we need to live in this world can only be received by the God who made it. The foundation for truly understanding who we are and how we should live flows from a personal relationship with the One who created the heavens and the earth and recreates us after his likeness in Christ. Or, as Solomon says, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge" (Prov 1:7).