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Sunday, June 2, 2019

The Benefits of Wisdom

The Benefits of Wisdom by Dr. D. James Kennedy

“…for wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.” Proverbs 8:11

God’s wisdom is personified in Proverbs 8, calling out to the people to follow her ways. We see in this passage various excellencies of wisdom—how it is able to touch the locks and open the latches of all of the doors of understanding and knowledge and inventions. All things open in the face of wisdom.

By wisdom kings reign and princes rule, and judges judge the earth. Wisdom says, “I love those who love me, and those that seek me early will find me” (Proverbs 8:16).

How true it is with even the knowledge of this world that those who love knowledge find that they are loved by it. And yet often they merely heap up to themselves empty facts, which have little eternal significance. But if we truly love wisdom, we will find that we will be loved by it and blessed by it. Not only riches, but “riches and honor are with me” (Proverbs 8:18). Honor comes from the wisdom of God and His word. It is durable riches which shall last.

Verse 21 says “… I may cause those who love me to inherit wealth, and I will fill their treasuries.” Now this is an amazing promise—those who seek God’s word will be blessed with substance and their treasuries will be filled. This is the promise of wisdom. Above all, seek not the gifts of life but the Giver of life.

Almighty God, wisdom and strength are with You. Make me wise, God, so that I can discern right from wrong. Give me strength for today that I can see the right path and take it and impart wisdom to others…

BY GOD’S STRENGTH AND WISDOM, WE TOO MAY BE WISE.

Today in History

Today in History
1935
Babe Ruth Retires

On this day in 1935, Babe Ruth, one of the greatest players in the history of baseball, ended his Major League playing career after 22 seasons, 10 World Series and 714 home runs. The following year, Ruth, a larger-than-life figure whose name became synonymous with baseball, was one of the first five players inducted into the sport’s hall of fame.

George Herman Ruth was born February 6, 1895, into a poor family in Baltimore. As a child, he was sent to St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, a school run by Roman Catholic brothers, where he learned to play baseball and was a standout athlete.

At 19, Ruth was signed by the Baltimore Orioles, then a Boston Red Sox minor league team. Ruth’s fellow teammates and the media began referring to him as team owner Jack Dunn’s newest “babe,” a nickname that stuck. Ruth would later acquire other nicknames, including “The Sultan of Swat” and “The Bambino.”

Ruth made his Major League debut as a left-handed pitcher with the Red Sox in July 1914 and pitched 89 winning games for the team before 1920, when he was traded to the New York Yankees. After Ruth left Boston, in what became known as “the curse of the Bambino,” the Red Sox didn’t win another World Series until 2004.

In New York, Ruth’s primary position changed to outfielder and he led the Yankees to seven American League pennants and four World Series victories. Ruth was a huge star in New York and attracted so many fans that the team was able to open a new stadium in 1923, Yankee Stadium, dubbed “The House That Ruth Built.”

The southpaw slugger’s final season, in 1935, was with the Boston Braves. He had joined the Braves with the hope that he’d become the team’s manager the next season. However, this dream never came to pass for a disappointed Ruth, who had a reputation for excessive drinking, gambling and womanizing.

Many of the records Ruth set remained in place for decades. His career homerun record stood until 1974, when it was broken by Hank Aaron. Ruth’s record of 60 homeruns in a single season (1927) of 154 games wasn’t bested until 1961, when Roger Maris knocked out 61 homers in an extended season of 162 games.

The Sultan of Swat’s career slugging percentage of .690 remains the highest in Major League history.

Ruth died of throat cancer at age 53 on August 16, 1948, in New York City. His body lay in state at Yankee Stadium for two days and was visited by over 100,000 fans.

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Thoughts on Today's Verse

"Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed." 1 Peter 1:13

Thoughts on Today's Verse by Phil Ware

The reward of delayed gratification! If there were ever a verse that did NOT match the whims of our "modern" society, this would have to be it! Prepare... be self-controlled... focus your hopes on the future... none of those is an advertising slogan, but they all are the sustaining truths of the great souls who have gone before us!

My Prayer...

Eternal God, please help me have the patience and faithfulness to let you fully form in me the character and the wisdom that my world so much lacks and I so much need. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Saturday, June 1, 2019

On Hypnosis

On Hypnosis by Dr. D. James Kennedy

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Romans 12:2

Don’t let the world hypnotize you into inaction for the Lord.

Why don’t we all do something of significance with our lives?

I recall seeing a magician at a stage performance ask for a volunteer. A man came forward and was asked to sit down on a stool. The magician began to hypnotize him. Finally the man apparently fell into a deep hypnotic sleep. But before he was brought out of that sleep, the magician told him and the entire audience that could hear, “When you wake up, you will not be able to move your right arm. You will not be able to even lift your right arm. Now, you wake up at the count of three—one, two, three.”

This was a man about 40 years old, quite physically capable. When he woke up, the magician said to him, “Now, sir, would you raise your left arm?” and he did. He then said, “Now, will you raise your right arm?” the man said, “I can’t.” He didn’t know what had happened to him. No matter how hard he tried, he could not raise his right arm.

I am absolutely confident that there are many of us who can’t do many things simply because we don’t believe that we can. May God help us to not be hypnotized by the world, so that we are conformed more and more into its image. I’m reminded of how the J. B. Phillips version paraphrases Romans 12:2: “Don’t let the world squeeze you into its mold.”

Dear Father, give me strength for today that I might conform myself to You and to no longer be hypnotized by this world’s negative and evil influences. Help us, Lord, to be conformed to Your image and not that of this sinful world…

BY GOD’S STRENGTH, WE MARCH TO HIS BEAT AND NOT THAT OF THE WORLD.