A Goody From Woody

I can’t get 1 Chronicles 12:32 off my mind. God’s Word says: “Of the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do . . .”

Do you pray God will grant us Godly men and women who understand the times in which we live? Have you seen a lot of Godly wisdom displayed lately? In the church? The world? The congress?

Issachar is the tribe that Deborah came from in the time “when every man did that which was right in his own eyes” (Judges 17:6).

The Sanhedrin during Jesus’ day was from the tribe of Issachar. The Sanhedrin was known for its wisdom. We need Biblical wisdom today!!

When David became King of Israel, the people who were united behind him are listed (chapters 1-9 of 1 Chronicles). Every person and leader was important—they were all connected to what God was doing with a new King and new beginnings in Israel.

Proverbs 10:21 says, “Fools die for lack of wisdom.” The contrast in Proverbs is “wise” people—God’s people looking to Him in their salvation and God makes them “wise.” The opposite are “fools,” people who have no relationship with God or His Son, Jesus.

“Head knowledge” is everywhere around us. But true wisdom, which is a “knowledge of the holy” (Proverbs 30:3) and the fear of the Lord, is greatly lacking today.

There is an ignorance of the Lord and lack of sensitivity to sin in our day.
What can you and I do to change this? Try Paul’s words. Paul understood this need to “understand the times” in which he lived. He was wise. He said, “But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.” –Philippians 3:7-11 NASB.
God Bless,
Woody

Quote: “If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.” -C.S. Lewis