Morning Devotional
February 2, 2010

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 6:12-15 NIV).

It appears that email spamming along with the scams associated with them is increasing. Some are just being reintroduced with a renewed look, but they’re the same old scams. We’ve all gotten an email that states Microsoft, or Bill Gates, is giving $245.00 every time you forward the email to another person. And, of course there is nothing to that claim. Surely you’ve received an email from someone who claims to have inherited a large sum of money and will give you a portion of it if they can use your back account to transfer it to the United States. Again, it is just another scam. These are the easy ones to spot. However, some are a little more difficult to determine.

One of the most current “scams” deals with donations to Haitian Relief. While it is true that you can text to a number to donate, it is not true that phone companies have agreed to donate for each of those messages forwarded, nor will Facebook donate one dollar for every time a particular message is posted. How do I know that? Well, I know the source to go to that has researched these rumors and determined the truth. I know the source of “wisdom.”

The key is in how we apply “wisdom.” The same is true in our spiritual lives. We need wisdom! True wisdom comes from our Father who is willing to bless us abundantly with great wisdom. From the writer of Proverbs we see that wisdom comes from the “mouth of the Lord.” The Scripture provides us with that wisdom. The more of the Scripture we have in our life the greater will be our wisdom. As we act upon that which the Holy Spirit reveals to us through the Scripture we will find that we are protecting our lives from the scams of our enemy.

As we saturate our lives with the Word of God and live according to that Word we find we will reap countless benefits as a result. Some of those benefits are wisdom, knowledge, understanding and discretion. Then we will be delivered from the “way of evil” and from those who delight in “doing evil.”

Remember, our enemy is indeed the “father of all lies.” The only way to effectively defeat him is with the truth. That is found in the Scripture! Commit yourself to a regular “fact check” through consistent reading and meditation in the Scripture.