God, I don't always understand you. There are some things I just don't get. Today they announced on the news that the body of a nine year old who had been missing for a week was found just ten miles from her home. She'd been taken from her room. I confess, God, I'm a little bothered by it. And I still haven't gotten over Charles suffering death. A godly man, great teacher dead at 45 because of cancer. To be honest, the guy that did this to this little girl deserves the suffering cancer. Slime ball.
I don't get a lot of things. But who am I really? Like Job, I wasn't there when you created the earth. I didn't separate light from darkness or set the moon, sun and stars in place. I didn't develop the order of things in the universe. Gravity was your idea. Okay, Okay. I know that I'm not God, even though I play one now and then.
There are lots of things about life I don't get. I get a lot of advice but I'm not sure I get a lot of wisdom. People share their thoughts and ideas with me all the time, but that's just it, it's their thoughts and ideas. Making the right choices, knowing what to do sometimes is really hard. Half the time people tell me stuff, I think they just want to hear themselves talk. It's no skin off their nose if I make the wrong decision.
God, sometimes I feel life is kind of like a game show. I pick the right numbers or box or whatever and I win. I pick the wrong one and I lose. I spin the wheel and hope for a winner. I flip a coin. I draw a straw. Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Mo ... I choose ....
As confusing as life is, I need a guide. I need some sort of spiritual Mapquest. I need wisdom. I need someone to help me with decisions and relationships and finances and career and family and kids. I need solid direction to get through the maze.
Paul says, that wisdom is available from God. His wisdom is not our wisdom or any human wisdom. His ways are not our ways or any human ways. No matter how brilliant or studied or experienced someone is on this planet, it doesn't even compare to God.
God, I need your wisdom.
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