Walk Of Life – Day 21, October 20 – Thoughts From The Book Of Proverbs
No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord. Proverbs 21 : 30
All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small is a poem written by Cecil Frances Alexander and L. Wasson. This is one of the memory poems given to the school students. The whole song brings out the splendour and majesty of God’s creation. Right from the bright coloured lovely flower that blooms in the morning and fades away at night to the ferocious tiger that hunts its prey during the night reflects the glory of the Lord. William Blake, a renowned poet in his poem “The Tyger” concludes with the lines “Did he who made the lamb make thee?” A vast difference between the characteristics of the tiger and the lamb. The same poet has written a poem “The Lamb” and in which he questions the lamb “Little Lamb who made thee, Dost thou know who made thee” and he tells also the answer to the lamb that
“Little Lamb I’ll tell thee,
Little Lamb I’ll tell thee!
He is called by thy name,
For He calls Himself a Lamb:
He is meek and He is mild,
He became a little child:
I a child and thou a lamb,
We are called by His name.”
The wisdom of God is profoundly hidden in these words. Everyone desires to be called or addressed either as a tiger or a lion or a leopard or a jaguar. Will any manufacturer or an owner dare to keep lamb as the logo of their product? No one will, but our Lord the maker and owner of the whole universe called Himself as Lamb. This counsel was considered to be wise and was acknowledged by God the Father, as well.
Psalm 8 : 3,4 says “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have established:
what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you consider him?
We are His creation besides all the other creation that reflects His glory. Actual wisdom of the world will be to ignore the erring mankind and to concentrate on something else. His plan concerning man is that he should have dominion over everything but when man became subjected to every other creation God had to do something to work out His original plans and so He chose the path of coming into this world to be a ransom for our sins manifesting His glory and His Wisdom.
Apostle Paul writes to the church at Colossians chapter 2 verses 2 and 3 “The riches of assured understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, of Christ, in whom are all the treasures of Wisdom and knowledge.” Therefore His wisdom and Knowledge and Counsel against which nothing can prevail.
Isaiah 31:1,2 says “Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong.” Let us never ever forget that no one in this world is wiser than our Lord and the counsel of men cannot be right all the time. For every occasion or at a time of taking not just important decisions but also for every normal and casual decision that we are going to take let us depend on the Wisdom, knowledge and the counsel of the Lord.
May our Lord enable us to surrender our lives and the decisions that we take to His hands
