Devotional Life Common Sense

 

Devotional Life

Common Sense

There are a lot of people who are engaging their mouth before their brain

Even God’s people

In your devotional time gain prudence and understanding

Learn to be wise

Don’t forget

The desire for instant gratification is the enemy of Common Sense

Common Sense is often developed through the school of hard knocks

 Consequences can be a good teacher

But it is better to gain understanding before you act

Think through the things you say and do

Remember if you do not have Common Sense you have no sense

No value

And those who have no sense are fools who have to learn the hard way

 

Common Sense

If you do not have Common Sense

what do you have?

 

No Sense!

 

And we call that Stupidity.

 

I don’t know about you…

 

 But my Common Sense is being

insulted more than ever before.

 

I hear things all the time

that don’t make sense.

 

I have tried to be a person

who lives by this motto…

 

“The key to communication on any level

is to view life through someone else’s eyes.”

 

But there are times I can’t see it.

 

Recently, I wanted to know why so

many people in America were saying

something that did not make sense to me.

 

The news media has not been covering

this issue in a way that was any help at all.

 

So I found supporters of this movement

had websites describing their cause.

 

One of the sites was very impressive.

 

They must have spent a lot

of money putting it together.

 

It took me a long time

to read through the site.

 

The site was set up as a training tool for

their cause to get groups of people talking

and seeing their cause their way.

 

I have to say I thought I would

find something that made sense.

 

Something that would help me connect.

 

But I could not find one

thing that made sense.

I am asking the question whatever

happened to “Common Sense”?

 

You don’t have to be highly

educated to have Common Sense.

 

Common Sense should be something we all use.

 

Yet, Deuteronomy 32 tells us…

 

The children of God who enjoyed all the

blessings of the land God had given them,

they turned away from the wisdom of the elderly.

 

Verse 28 says…

 

They are a nation without sense,

there is no discernment in them.

 

A nation of God’s people who

are without Common Sense.

 

Verse 29 says…

 

If only they were wise and would understand this

and discern what their end will be!

 

Common Sense does not

look for instant gratification.

 

Common Sense looks to the

future results of our actions.

 

Proverbs 8:5 says…

 

You who are simple, gain prudence;

you who are foolish, gain understanding.

 

The same Hebrew word is used for

“Prudence” and “Understanding” in this verse.

 

The ESV uses the word “Sense”.

 

Common Sense is to be prudent

and to gain understanding.

 

Proverbs says the person who is void

of prudence and understanding is a fool.

 

Proverbs also tells us those you gain

understanding are blessed and profitable.

     

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom,

the man who gains understanding,

for she is more profitable than silver

and yields better returns than gold.

She is more precious than rubies;

 nothing you desire can compare with her.

 Proverbs 3:13-15

 

There are a lot of people who are

engaging their mouth before their brain.

 

Even God’s people.

 

In your devotional time gain

prudence and understanding.

 

Learn to be wise.

 

Don’t forget…

 

The desire for instant gratification

is the enemy of Common Sense.

 

Common Sense is often developed

through the school of hard knocks.

 

 Consequences can be a good teacher…

 

But it is better to gain understanding before you act.

 

Think through the things you say and do.

 

Remember if you do not have

Common Sense you have no sense…

 

No value.

 

And those who have no sense are

fools who have to learn the hard way.

 

 

Scripture Reading

 

Proverbs 2:1-8 NIV

 

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.