Devotional Guide, Today’s Reading Wednesday, 4th September, 2024

Theme:THE FUTILITY OF WORLDLY WISDOM

Text: “Thus says the LORD: Let not the wise and skilful person glory and boast in his wisdom and skill. Let not the mighty and powerful person glory and boast in his strength and power. Let not the person who is rich (in physical gratification and earthly wealth) glory and boast in his (temporal satisfaction and earthly) riches. But let him who glories glory in this: that he understands and knows me (personally and practically, directly discerning My character) that I am the LORD who practices loving-kindness, judgment and righteousness in the earth, for in these things I delight, says the LORD.” – Jeremiah 9:23,24. (The Amplified Bible)

Comment: The futility of man’s wisdom was demonstrated in the boast and pride in the construction of the TITANIC in 1909 in Belfast, Ireland by the ship building company Harland and Wolff. It was a luxurious ship. The builders boasted in arrogance of its opulent state rooms, luxurious dining rooms, sumptuous smoking rooms with ornate ceilings and magnificent candelabra and a lot of other accessories. They claimed that the ship embodied a spirit of invulnerability so much that they boasted that the ship was unsinkable and that even “GOD HIMSELF COULD NOT SINK THIS SHIP”. This was a blasphemous statement from the mouth of a man created by God because he has acquired human wisdom and skill to build a ship. God proved Himself and showed that this was an idle boast because the ship’s vulnerability was cruelly exposed in the space of two hours forty minutes of its very first voyage on April 15, 1912 with a resultant loss of 1,500 lives when it collided with an iceberg. But was it just the iceberg that destroyed the ship? No! Speaking blasphemy against God is dangerous. The Holy Bible also warns against pride and arrogancy. – James 4:6; 1 Peter 5:5.

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