By Arul Gaspar
The term ‘wisdom’ refers to the application of the Word of God in our day-to-day life. Understanding is the required amount of knowledge and sense of regeneration to realise the gospel of truth so that we lead GOD’S SIN-REPENTED-FORGIVEN-SAVED life amongst believers and unbelievers of the gospel of Christ.
The Lord Jesus teaches his disciples to ask the Father to give them that day their daily bread. Isn’t about their daily need? What is their daily need? They are with the Saviour of the world and they request Him to teach themhow to pray. Jesus in turn directs them to look at the Father God in prayer.
Agur, son of Jakeh as a true seeker of the Lord prays saying, “Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, …” (Proverbs 30:8 ESV). It is evident that we need to find our strong sufficiency in God. Nothing should influence us in the world and nothing should make us feel either overwhelmed or over fed. Overwhelming leads to deny our faithfulness to Christ in times of trouble and too much of possession makes us feel certain about our worldly desires that cripple our God given consciousness. And the ultimate goal of Satan is to separate us from the presence of God forever. So our Lord Jesus Christ clearly guides us to ask the Father about our today’s need for physical, emotional, and spiritual strength. He encourages us to live this day with Him to the fullest.
If we believe in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, we will do three essential things: we will acknowledge Jesus Christ as our personal Saviour who is mighty to rescue us from the present reality and faithful to cleanse all our sins; we will run to the Lord Jesus for any assistance:emotional, social, economic, spiritual, cultural, personal, and political; we will make it clear to our reasoning that Jesus has the power to heal any disease. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the only hope for salvation, help, and for healing.
How should I guard my heart against all sorts of materialistic thoughts and desires? What happens when I don’t measure myself upto sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ? When my life is filled with abundant things things of the world, what does it happen in my spiritual journey to the gospel of truth?
The best example for submission and humility is our Lord Jesus Christ. It is evident in Philippians 2:1-11 when Paul states:
[1] … So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, [2] complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. [3] Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. [4] Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. [5] Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, [6] who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, [7] but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. [8] And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. [9] Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, [10] so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, [11] and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. …(ESV)