Learning To Be Sagacious Palm Trees
Am I learning how to use my Bible? The way to become complete for the Master’s service is to be well soaked in the Bible, some of us only exploit certain passages. Our Lord wants to give us continuous instruction out of His word; continuous instruction turns hearers into disciples. Beware of “Spooned meat” (processed, canned meat lacking protein and nutritional value) spirituality, of using the Bible for the sake of getting messages; use it to nourish your own soul. Be a continuous learner, don’t stop short, and the truth will open to you on the right hand and on the left until you find there is no problem in human life with which the Bible does not deal. But remember that there are certain points of truth Our Lord cannot reveal to us until our character is in a fit state to bear it. The discernment of God’s truth and the development of character go together.
The life God places in the Christian worker is the life of Jesus Christ, which is continually changing spiritual innocence into glorious practical character.
-Approved Unto God
Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God’s indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him. As long as we get from God everything we ask for, we never get to know Him, we look upon Him as a blessing-machine, that has nothing to do with God’s character or with our characters. “Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him.” Then why pray? To get to know your Father. It is not sufficient for us to say, “Oh yes, God is love,” we have to know He is love, we have to struggle through until we do see He is love and justice, then our prayer is answered.
-If Ye Shall Ask
sagacious |səˈgā sh əs|
adjective
having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgment; shrewd : they were sagacious enough to avoid any outright confrontation. See note at sensible
Psalm 92.12 The righteous will flourish like a palm tree,
they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;
13 planted in the house of the Lord,
they will flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They will still bear fruit in old age,
they will stay fresh and green,
15 proclaiming, “The Lord is upright;
he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him.”
My desire is to be Segacious for Him.
