Every moment of every day we look for, find and answer this question: “What do I do with my resources?”
- What do I do with my time today?
- How do I spend or save my money?
- How do I use my talents?
- How do I utilize my stuff?
To be honest, we almost always answer this with sheer instinct, or with what we are “supposed to do.”
- We hit the snooze button because we determined that the best use of the next 7 minutes, which we will never get back, is to get a tad more sleep.
- A cup of coffee for $2.50 is better than saving that money or giving it to the guy on the corner.
- Using 24 specific words to comfort a co-worker is better than using 46 words online to prove that somebody is wrong.Wisdom, as we will see in the Book of Proverbs, is the real-life working out of Truth. The real question is…which Truth? When our “truth” is that I need to build and keep my value, then it will be worked out in a “me first” avenue. When Truth is that Jesus has wooed me and given me infinite love and value, then it will be worked out in a “God first” and “others first” avenue.
In life we constantly ask “what should I do” in an infinite number of situations (parenting, job, pain, success, church etc). The first question should actually be “what do I believe?” because it’s out of our belief that we will make decisions.
In the midst of that, there are still countless situations, circumstances and questions that simply don’t have simple and clear answers. It is in these real-life scenarios where we have freedom and are empowered with the very Spirit of God inside of us to speak, guide and even carry us moment by moment. So the real question under “what should I do” is “what do I believe?”, and the real question under that is “can I trust God?” Can I trust that God is for me and has the power to make all things work for the good of those who know him and are called by him? The answer to that is simply found here:
Romans 8-32
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?