God dropped a thought into my mind
once; wisdom is sprinkled throughout the entire world and it’s for our mutual
and global edification as we share.
One wisdom quote:
“When every moment becomes a Divine
Appointment,
then you have learned to walk with God.”
— Darlene Rose.
Truly, for all believers, there is
a chase to that reality that beckons where God is constant. Like the elusiveness of happiness and peace
is the idea, but God is beyond ‘ideas’ to the actuality of experience. And
there’s no limit to the experiences of God.
That’s all the encouragement we need to pursue this Lord.
Every Prayerful Moment
The wisdom quotation, like most
such captions, is rich as it’s diverse.
The first line is a prayerful hope
because it’s the surrender of thought for the moment—every moment—to God. And whilst that might seem impossible in
reality, possibility isn’t really the point (though some will insist it is
possible).
Intent is what it’s about. The fact that at any time we expect God to
‘walk in’ via the folding circumstance is to behold that prevailing second in
awe. This is most relevantly the
language of prayer—total cognisance of the Divine.
Importantly Conditional
The mature person enjoys conditional
statements, like, “If you do one thing, then another
thing will happen.”
When the acid is on such a person
they can deal with this cause-and-effect reality. There’s no use moaning about the fact that we
live in a conditional world. If we do one thing, there’s a good chance a certain
outcome may occur—with reliable odds.
There is safety in
conditions. Do one thing for the
achievement of another. We work for
conditions, and when we work we’re under the reliable assumption we’ll be paid
for our labours. It makes the work
worthwhile.
The quote above is highly
conditional—being a “when... then” statement—so it offers the same reliability
and hence safety. God is faithful. If we choose to see everything as from God,
we’ll have demonstrably learned to be in step with the Lord. We have chosen obedience.
Walk Humbly – Think Devotedly
Choosing to see God in all our
circumstances—good, bad and indifferent—is choosing to walk humbly (Micah 6:8).
Such devoted commitment to walking
with our Lord is not so much hard as it requires moral practice from
consistently leaning on God and not on ourselves, and our own power or
intuition (Proverbs 3:5-6).
Walking with God is agreeing to
think his ways, as thinking his ways is encouraging us to walk humbly with him.
It’s a circular package, and that
is what the quote at top suggests; insightful thinking will influence our
behaviour as our behaviour will also influence our discerned thinking.
© 2012 S. J. Wickham.
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