Daily Manna for Monday, March 20, 2006

[ComeFrom?]

Then you will understand what is right and just and fair--every good path. For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you. Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse, who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways, who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil, whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways. Proverbs 2:9-15 NIV

[Mrs Backlasher]

The Daily Manna message for today starts with the word "THEN." That tells me the blessings and benefits listed are CONDITIONAL. So I asked myself, "What do I need to do to receive these blessings and benefits?"

So I went to "bible.com" and found the first part of Proverbs 2. (Ain't the internet a GRAND invention?!) And now I know how to lay hold on these promises of God.

1 My son, if you accept my words
and store up my commands within you,

2 turning your ear to wisdom
and applying your heart to understanding,

3 and if you call out for insight
and cry aloud for understanding,

4 and if you look for it as for silver
and search for it as for hidden treasure,

5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD
and find the knowledge of God.

6 For the LORD gives wisdom,
and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

7 He holds victory in store for the upright,
he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,

8 for he guards the course of the just
and protects the way of his faithful ones.