GOD’S WORD FOR APRIL 30 ~ ~ Ephesians 2:10 ~ ~ “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”

We are learning about Jesus as our wisdom in the book “Abide in Christ” by Andrew Murray, written in the late 1800’s.

In all your daily life, its ways and its work, abide in Jesus as your wisdom.  Your body and your daily life share in the great salvation:  in Christ, the wisdom of God, provision has been made for their guidance, too.  Your body is His temple, your daily life the sphere for glorifying Him.  It is a matter of  deep interest in Him that all your earthly concerns would be guided aright.  Only trust His sympathy, believe His love, and wait for His guidance – it will be given.  Abiding in Him, the mind will be calmed and freed from passion, the judgment cleared, and strengthened; the light of heaven will shine on earthly things and your prayers for wisdom like Solomon’s, will be fulfilled above what you ask or think.

And so, especially  in any work you do for God, abide in Jesus as your wisdom.  “We are…created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.” (Ephesians 2:10);  let all fear or doubt – lest we should not know exactly what these works are – be put far away.  In Christ we are created for them.  He will show us what they are and how to do them.  Cultivate the habit of rejoicing in the assurance that the divine wisdom is guiding you, even where you do not yet see the way.

All that you can wish to know is perfectly clear to Him.  As Man, as Mediator, He has access to the counsels of Deity, to the secrets of Providence, in your interest, and on your behalf.  If you will but trust Him fully and abide in Him entirely, you can be confident of having unerring guidance.,

Yes, abide in Jesus as your wisdom.  Seek to maintain the spirit of waiting and dependence that always sees to learn and will not move but as the heavenly light leads on.  Withdraw yourself from all needless distraction, close your ears to the voices of the world and be a docile learner, ever listening for the heavenly wisdom the Master has to teach.

Surrender all your own wisdom; seek a deep conviction of the utter blindness of the natural understanding in the things of God; and wait for Jesus to teach and to guide what you have to believe and have to do.  Remember that the teaching and guidance do not come from without:  it is by His life in us  that the divine wisdom does His work.

Retire frequently with Him into the inner chamber of the heart, where the gentle voice of the Spirit is only heard if all is still.  Hold fast with unshaken confidence, even in the midst of darkness and apparent desertion, to His own assurance that He is the light and the leader of His own. 

Live, above all, day by day in the blessed truth that, as He Himself, the living Christ Jesus, is your wisdom, your first and last care must ever be this alone:  to abide in Him.

Abiding in Him, His wisdom will come to you as the spontaneous outflowing of a life rooted in Him.  “I abide in Christ, who was made unto us wisdom from God;  wisdom will be given to me.”

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