Job 28:28 ‘And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.’

DAILY READING; Hebrews 4:14-6:12; Genesis 49:1-50:26; Psalm 39

William Cameron Townsend was an American Christian missionary who founded Wycliffe Bible Translators, which is one of the largest Christian missionary agencies in the world, today.
As a young man, fresh out of college, Townsend had gone to Central America as a short-term volunteer. At that time, selling books, including Bibles, was a way Protestants could do evangelistic work in Latin America without getting in trouble with the authorities. So Townsend became a traveling bookseller or what was then called a “colporteur.”
After his return to the U.S., Townsend felt called to go back to Guatemala as a career missionary where he again took up colportage evangelism. One day Townsend tried to sell a Spanish Bible to a Cakchiquel man who came by his book table in a village market.
Finally, the Cakchiquel man said something which meant: “Mister, if your God is so smart, why doesn’t He speak my language?”
At that point, Cakchiquel was an unwritten language. From that man’s statement, Townsend realized that world evangelism efforts would be somewhat ineffective unless they were done in people’s native tongue or “heart language.” He found that indeed the greatest missionary to native people is the Bible in their Mother Tongue.
Townsend then began learning the language of Cakchiquel and set about inventing an alphabet so the language could be written. He gave more than a decade of his life to translating the New Testament into Cakchiquel.
He then dedicated the rest of his life to the cause of Bible translation. He founded Wycliffe Bible Translators which has led to the translation and production of New Testaments in more than 1,000 languages and ongoing Scripture translation projects in more than 2,000 additional languages.
Because Townsend applied wisdom and worked strategically, the Bible is now in many languages of the world and many lives are being blessed and impacted greatly as a result.

We certainly need divine wisdom to carry out God’s assignment for our lives. We need to work strategically if we are to fulfill the enormity of the great commission before us.
As children of the Most High God, divine Wisdom is our heritage in Christ. However, we need to know how to access it.
One of the important commandments in the Scriptures for accessing divine wisdom is the fear of the Lord.
Psalm 111:10 says: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, what then is the fear of the Lord?
Proverb 8:13 tells us that the fear of the Lord is the hatred of evil .
Those who fear God abhor evil and constantly strive to please God in how they conduct their lives, business and affairs.
When you fear the Lord, you will always have the consciousness of His presence. Though you may not physically see God, yet you are so aware of His Presence that it makes you act in obedience to His Word.
It means that God has the final say in your life. You regard Him as the final authority over your marriage, family, business, career and relationships. It means that you make God the first, the last and final consideration of your life.
When you arrive at this level of fearing God, it makes you completely fearless in the face of the world. Nothing and no one can make you to compromise your position as a child of God. You are as bold as a lion and courageous in the face of adverse circumstances.
When God sees our hearts so devoted to fear Him, there is no height of success He cannot take us to. He grants us automatic access to supernatural wisdom that causes us to excel in life.
But those who refuse to fear the Lord, end up walking in foolishness and making many blunders in their lives.
Job 28:28 says ‘And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.’
Surely, the decision to depart from evil will grant you understanding that will make you to be outstanding in life and achieve superior results that turns you into a wonder to your world.

PRAYER: Lord, Please give me the grace to always put You first in my life. Please help me to connect to Your Wisdom, so that Your foreordained plan and purpose for me, can come into full manifestation, in Jesus Name. .
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When you obey God’s instruction you are delivered from destruction WORDBITE 222