Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil.”
NL Daily Devotion for Friday, July 30, 2021
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
Any parent of a teenager knows that wisdom comes with age and experience. Simply declaring “live as wise people” seems a little ridiculous. We all need to go out and be the prodigal son for a while, knowing that God is waiting for us to get ourselves together and come home, all the wiser.
Now that I’m almost fifty, I still won’t claim to be all-wise. Yes, I have a great deal more wisdom now than I ever had when I was 18 or 27 or even 40. But there is always room to continue to make the choice to live as a wise person. And I do that by living in community with other wise people and unwise people and listening to the experience of others. There is no one I cannot learn from if I am open to it. True wisdom means acknowledging just how much more wisdom we need to learn.
Who in my life do I consider to be wise? Why?
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