Christian Devotional – March 13, 2025

Wisdom Squandered, Day 8

Stay aware! Read Ecclesiastes 4:7-16.

Ah, the difference between age and youth. As I get older, I start to see how easy it is to fall into the trap that Solomon mentions here. Often, as we get older, we start to get set in our ways and we don’t change or adjust as quickly as we need to. Solomon mentions in the verse that the old foolish King doesn’t know how to heed a warning anymore.

As we continue to seek to serve the Lord in everything we do, we must also be be aware of the signs that God allows us to see in our surroundings. God gives us warnings when things are not going the way he wants them to. God wants us to recognize when we are on a path we should have no business being on. As we get older, sometimes we become blind to those signs, and we don’t pay attention to the warnings around us. We think about all the things we’ve done up to that point, and we wrongly assume that we will always be able to do those things.

We must continue to focus on God in everything, so that we can catch those signs quickly, before we have any additional problems or concerns. Are we paying attention to the signs and making adjustments and changes and repenting, as we need to?

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