Today’s Thought “Softly and Tenderly, Jesus is Calling…” G. Ward

 

James 3:13 “Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom.”

 

This verse celebrates exercising power with control – that is, a constraint to yield to where wisdom flows. James would also be inspired to write “You do not have because you do not ask,” which merely means that many exercise in failure to seek these things from God through prayer and that includes an ongoing meditative process of being owned by the Gentle Savior Jesus, to then comply with HIS example in earth and whereas HE was wrongfully accused, persecuted, then crucified, knowing the exactness of what was to take place years in advance, yet would endure (with you and me in mind), John Mark would record that Jesus our Lord would arise very early in the morning to convene with the Father to set the highest model to where wisdom begins and ends, to then hear and do.

 

And Father God, our approach is tenderly in tune with Your directives, particularly as we diminish in view of gaining entry onto the presence of the Holy One; asking Your forgiveness for having exercised before in mere speculation, even ruining other’s mindsets that kept them distant from Your reign and rule and now determined to recall how our Lord Jesus correlated in an era just like ours. May HE be praised as we say yes to HIS will, Amen.