Applying All Your Power to the Quest For It.

And we are back.  Hello.  I am so glad you are here.

It is the 2nd day of January and our year is off to a wonderful start.  I pray that you feel that way about your year.  The beauty of a new year is the opportunity for a fresh start.  In order to receive that blessing though, we must first believe that it is a fresh start and ideally we have something we are working towards and looking forward to.  That, my friends is the power of purpose.

I want to invite you to join me in reading a proverb a day in 2018.  

Today, I was reading Proverbs 2. Verse 2 says if we make our ear attentive to Wisdom and we apply all of our power to the quest for it, we will be able to understand God and what He wants for our life.  That is my brief paraphrase of the Amplified Classic bible.  The key here is that this is an if/then relationship.  If you do this, then you will have that.

Let's think for a second about what that means.  God is telling us that if we really go in search for wisdom and apply all our power to going after it, then we will be rewarded with the wisdom we seek.  The problems many of us face is that when we lack wisdom, we look for the quickest and easiest path to attain it.  We aren't always committed to finding it at all costs.  We want the benefit without the sacrifice.  

This can be true in all the different areas of our lives, relationships, work, organization, finances etc.  However, in our spiritual life this is especially true.  

So often we settle for mediocrity in our relationship with God.  Perhaps we measure ourselves against the average believer and decide we aren't doing too badly in comparison.  There's one thing I know about God though and it's that He desires an intimate relationship with us.  He wants to share His secrets with us.  He wants to pour His heart out to us.  He already has in His word (which many of us barely pick up) but He is also still speaking to us each and every day.

If we want it, His wisdom is laid out for each of us to read and meditate on and absorb and assimilate into our daily lives. In fact, He has a whole book devoted to wisdom.  What is holding us back from going after that wisdom with all of our hearts? 

All of our hearts.  The amplified classic says, "applying all your power to the quest for it."  Think of that language for a second.  See, we think of life as a set of routines and obligations.  What if we began to approach our lives as if we were on an actual quest?

As a child I used to enjoy the books that let me make choices about which way the plot should go.  I would make a selection at the end of a chapter and then I would proceed to the page of the book where my scenario got played out and it would continue this way until I came to one of two possible conclusions.  Did you get to read those books?  I felt like I had a say in the narrative.  In your life, you get to have a say in the narrative.  There are scenarios presented to us and we get to choose which way we are going to go.  In the end we will end up with one of two possible conclusions.  Sometimes the decisions are harder than others but the key is that we really have to believe that we are on a quest in order to make our decisions consciously instead of on auto-pilot.  

If you see your life as a quest, then every decision you make will be purposeful and will lead you to your next clue.  Then we live a life that is based on looking for God-clues everywhere we go and being actively engaged in the pursuit of Wisdom.  That is energizing, exciting and fun.  Who wouldn't want that?  

My prayer is that we each take this on as a challenge.  Let's make the pursuit of godly Wisdom our quest and let's apply all our power to going after it.  

Join me tomorrow for an encouragement from Proverbs Chapter 3.  

You are awesome, you can do this and you are not alone!

Love you, 

Vita

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