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January 3 - Wise Up or Wipe Out · Bible Chat Devotional

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  Welcome to Bible Chat, where we have devotional conversations
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  rooted in Scripture and relevant for today, January 3rd.
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  Wise up or wipe out. Every day is filled with
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  choices, and some of them seem small, almost insignificant.
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  But over time, those choices shape the direction of your
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  life. Proverbs chapter 2, verses 1 to
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  22, reminds us that wisdom isn't automatic.
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  It's something we actively pursue, like hidden treasure.
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  And at the end of that chapter, verses 21 to 22 draw a clear
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  contrast. Those who walk with integrity
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  remain, while those who choose crooked paths eventually lose
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  their footing. Psalm 3 gives us comfort when
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  the pressure feels heavy. David wrote this Psalm while
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  running for his life surrounded by enemies and fear.
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  Yet he declares in verse three, You, O Lord, are a shield about
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  me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
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  That means God doesn't just protect you from a distance, He
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  surrounds you. He restores your confidence.
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  He lifts your head when shame, fear, or failure tries to pull
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  it down. Choosing wisdom doesn't mean
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  you'll never struggle. It means you're choosing
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  protection, clarity, and peace over shortcuts that lead to
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  regret. When you seek God's wisdom,
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  you're not limiting your life, you're securing it, even when
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  temptation whispers that everyone else is doing it.
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  Wisdom reminds you that God sees the whole picture, not just the
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  moment. Let's pray, Heavenly Father,
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  teach me to seek your wisdom with my whole heart.
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  Help me choose integrity even when it's hard or unpopular.
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  Thank you for being my shield and the one who lifts my head
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  when I feel overwhelmed. Lead me on the path that brings
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  life and peace in Jesus name, Amen.
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  in every season. SEE opens your spiritual eyes to
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  God's power, glory, and beauty at work in your life.
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  Satisfy leads your soul into fullness, strength, and deep
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  contentment in Him alone. Sing ignites joy, gratitude, and
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  deeper intimacy with the God who satisfies.
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  Now I invite you to spend time with God in today's three-year
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  Bible reading plan, Proverbs chapter 2, verses 1 to 22 World
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  English Bible. My son, if you will receive my
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  words and store up my commandments within you so as to
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  turn your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to
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  understanding. Yes, if you call out for
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  discernment and lift up your voice for understanding, if you
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  seek her as silver and search for her As for hidden treasures,
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  then you will understand the fear of Yahweh and find the
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  knowledge of God. For Yahweh gives wisdom.
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  Out of His mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
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  He lays up sound wisdom for the upright.
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  He is a shield to those who walk in integrity, that he may guard
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  the paths of justice and preserve the way of His Saints.
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  Then you will understand righteousness and justice,
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  equity, and every good path for wisdom will enter into your
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  heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to
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  your soul. Discretion will watch over you.
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  Understanding will keep you to deliver you from the way of
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  evil, from the men who speak perverse things, who forsake the
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  paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, who
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  rejoice to do evil and delight in the perverseness of evil, who
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  are crooked in their ways and wayward in their paths.
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  To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner
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  who flatters with her words, who forsakes the friend of her youth
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  and forgets the covenant of her God.
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  For her house leads down to death her paths to the departed
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  spirits. None who go to her return again,
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  neither do they attain to the paths of life.
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  Therefore walk in the way of good men and keep the paths of
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  the righteous. For the upright will dwell in
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  the land, the perfect will remain in it, but the wicked
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  will be cut off from the land, the treacherous will be rooted
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  out of it. Psalm Chapter 3.
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  World English Bible A Psalm by David when he fled from Absalom,
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  his son Yahweh. How my adversaries have
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  increased. Many are those who rise up
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  against me, many there are who say of my soul there is no help
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  for him in God. Selah.
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  But you Yahweh are a shield around me, my glory, and the one
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  who lifts up my head. I cry to Yahweh with my voice,
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  and he answers me out of his holy hill.
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  Selah. I laid myself down and slept.
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  I awakened, for Yahweh sustains me.
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  I will not be afraid of 10s of thousands of people who have set
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  themselves against me on every side.
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  Arise Yahweh, save me my God, for you have struck all of my
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  enemies on the cheekbone. You have broken the teeth of the
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  wicked. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.
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  May your blessing be on your people.
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