Walking circumspectly without dissipation (Ephesians 5:15-20)

So be careful how you live (walk circumspectly kjv). Don’t live like fools (in dissipation), but like those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do. Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts. And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. - Ephesians 5:15-20

In the Bible, "walking circumspectly," primarily from Ephesians 5:15, means to live with extreme care, watchfulness, and wisdom, like someone looking closely around them to avoid stumbling in darkness or folly, making the most of every opportunity in evil days, and understanding God's will, not as fools but as the wise. It involves deliberate, accurate steps, being alert to dangers, and diligently guarding against sin, often empowered by the Holy Spirit. 

Key Meanings and Implications

• Careful & Precise Living: Not rushing or being clumsy, but taking deliberate, thought-out steps in life and behavior. 
• Awareness & Watchfulness: Being alert to your surroundings, guarding against surprise, and being watchful in every direction. 
• Wisdom vs. Folly: Acting wisely by understanding and following God's will, in contrast to foolishness (dissipation). 
• Redeeming the Time: Making the most of every moment because the days are evil, buying back wasted time for good. 
• Spiritual Discernment: Living in the light, understanding God's plan, and being guided by the Holy Spirit to do good works. 

The passage moves from posture (how you walk) → urgency (why you walk carefully) → content (what you walk toward) → power (by what you walk). It is Paul's integrated vision of sanctification: attentive, urgent, discerning, and Spirit-empowered. The children of light do not drift — they choose, reclaim, understand, and yield.

The word circumspect also appears in Exodus 23:13 which commands Israelites to be diligent (circumspect) in following all of God's instructions, specifically forbidding them from invoking, mentioning, or letting the names of other gods be heard from their lips, emphasizing exclusive worship of Yahweh. 

Key Aspects of Exodus 23:13:

• Context: It concludes a section of laws, including the Sabbath rest, separating Israelites from pagan practices.
• The Command: To not just avoid worshipping other gods, but to avoid even speaking their names (e.g., Baal).
• Significance: This command prohibited elevating or validating foreign deities by mentioning them in a respectful or formal manner, reinforcing the first commandment.

In the Bible, dissipation refers to a reckless, wasteful, and dissolute lifestyle marked by self-indulgence, excess, and a lack of self-control, often leading to spiritual and moral ruin. Derived from the Greek asotia (meaning "unsaved" or "wasteful"), it represents the scattering of life, resources, and focus away from God and toward harmful worldly pleasures:

• Prodigal Living: The "wild living" or "dissipation" of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15:13 demonstrates the wasteful squandering of resources on selfish, temporary pleasures.
• Lack of Self-Control: It is linked with drunkenness, revelry, and immorality, often described as a "flood of dissipation" in 1 Peter 4:4 and 2 Peter 2:13
• Spiritual Obstacle: Jesus warns in Luke 21:34 that dissipation (along with drunkenness and anxieties) can weigh down hearts, distracting believers from spiritual readiness and God's kingdom.
• Contrast to Virtue: It opposes biblical virtues like temperance, sobriety, and diligence, as noted in Proverbs 21:17 and Ephesians 5:18
• Opposite of Spiritual Filling: Ephesians 5:18 contrasts being "drunk with wine" (a form of dissipation) with being filled with the Spirit. 

Ultimately, dissipation represents a life focused on worldly lusts rather than godly pursuits, often associated with a rejection of divine discipline.

Ephesians 5:15-18 Themes

1. The Contrast of Two Ways Paul structures the passage as a series of sharp antitheses — wise/foolish, circumspect/reckless, Spirit-filled/drunk. The believer's life is defined by choosing, not drifting.
2. Urgency Rooted in Cosmic Context "The days are evil" is not pessimism — it is situational awareness. Wise living is always eschatologically aware. Time is not neutral; it is contested.
3. Wisdom as Active Discernment Understanding God's will is not passive reception but active pursuit. Wisdom involves the mind, will, and renewed spiritual perception.
4. Spirit-Filling as the Alternative Governing Power The wine/Spirit contrast is not merely about sobriety — it is about what controls a person. The Spirit-filled life produces community, worship, and gratitude (vv.19-20), which drunkenness destroys.

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I. Walk Wisely — The Posture of the Disciple (v.15)

"See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise"

• "See then" (βλέπετε) — a call to conscious, attentive living; not sleepwalking through life
• "Walk circumspectly" (ἀκριβῶς) — precisely, carefully, with exact attention
• exactly, accurately, carefully, or diligently. It stems from a root meaning to ascertain, inquire diligently, or to know to the last point. 
• The fool assumes life is safe; the wise person knows it is not
• The walk is public witness — outsiders observe how believers navigate the world

Additional References:

• Proverbs 4:26 — "Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways"
• Psalm 119:9 — "How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word"
• Galatians 5:16 — "Walk by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh"
• Luke 16:8 — Jesus notes that worldly people are sometimes shrewder than the children of light in their generation

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II. Redeem the Time — The Urgency of the Disciple (v.16)

"Redeeming the time, because the days are evil"

• "Redeeming" (ἐξαγοραζόμενοι) — buying back, reclaiming what is lost; a marketplace metaphor
• Time (καιρός) — not chronological time but appointed opportunity, the decisive moment, a "season" or "appointed time"
• "The days are evil" — not escapism but realism; the age is under hostile spiritual influence (cf. 2:2; 6:12)
• Every believer lives in a window of opportunity that will close
• The Christian Code of Conduct for the Church Militant (Ben Lorence)
  

Additional References:

• Colossians 4:5 — "Act wisely toward outsiders, redeeming the time"
• John 9:4 — "We must do the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work"
• 1 Peter 4:2-3 — contrast of former life vs. life lived for the will of God
• 2 Timothy 4:2 — "Be ready in season and out of season"
• Psalm 90:12 — "Teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom"
• 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 — "The time is short... the form of this world is passing away"

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III. Understand God's Will — The Mind of the Disciple (v.17)

"Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is"

• "Do not be foolish" (ἄφρονες) — without reason, mindless; to drift is to be foolish
• "Understand" (συνίετε) — to bring together, to comprehend by synthesis; moral and spiritual intelligence
• Understanding God's will requires: Scripture (Col. 3:16), prayer (Col. 1:9), community (Heb. 10:24-25), and the Spirit (1 Cor. 2:12-16)
• This is the hinge verse — wisdom about time leads to discernment of will

Additional References:

• Romans 12:2 — "Be transformed by the renewing of your mind... that you may test and approve the will of God"
• Colossians 1:9-10 — being filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom
• James 1:5 — asking God who gives wisdom generously
• Proverbs 2:1-6 — the diligent pursuit of wisdom
• Psalm 143:10 — "Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your Spirit lead me on level ground"
• Hebrews 5:14 — mature believers have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil

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IV. Be Filled with the Spirit — The Power of the Disciple (v.18)

"Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit"

• The contrast is one of governance: what controls you? Wine diminishes judgment; the Spirit sharpens and empowers it
• "Reckless indiscretion" (ἀσωτία) — wastefulness, dissipation; the prodigal's lifestyle (Luke 15:13)
• "Be filled" (πληροῦσθε) — present passive imperative: continuous, ongoing, not a one-time event; it is a command, not a feeling
• Spirit-filling is evidenced communally (v.19 — speaking, singing), vertically (v.20 — thanksgiving), and relationally (vv.21ff — mutual submission)

Additional References:

• Acts 2:4, 13 — at Pentecost, observers mistook Spirit-filling for drunkenness (the comparison Paul may be invoking)
• Acts 4:31 — "They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly"
• Galatians 5:22-23 — the fruit of the Spirit as evidence of Spirit-control
• 1 Corinthians 14:15 — singing with both spirit and mind
• Colossians 3:16 — the parallel passage: "let the word of Christ dwell richly" produces identical outcomes to Spirit-filling (songs, gratitude, mutual instruction)
• Luke 1:41, 67 — Spirit-filling in the nativity narratives as models of Spirit-governed speech and praise
• Romans 8:5-6 — setting the mind on the Spirit produces life and peace

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The Christian Code of Conduct for the Church Militant (Ben Lorence)

or Standing Faithful Until the Church Triumphant

Subtitle:
Biblical Principles for Living as Christ’s Ambassadors Behind Enemy Lines

Introduction: We Are Already at War

Most Christians live as though the war is coming.

It is not coming. It is here.

Every believer who has placed their faith in Jesus Christ has been conscripted into a conflict that predates history and will outlast every earthly empire. The moment of conversion is not merely a transaction of forgiveness. It is an enlistment. The church you joined on Sunday morning is not a sanctuary from the world so much as a staging ground within it. You are not waiting to be deployed. You were deployed the moment you were born again.

This is the reality the New Testament refuses to soften.

Paul does not write to the Ephesians as tourists passing through a foreign land. He writes to soldiers. He does not hand them a travel guide; he gives them armor. He does not wish them comfort; he commands them to stand. And standing, in the vocabulary of spiritual warfare, is not passive. It is the hardest thing a soldier is ever asked to do: to hold ground under fire, without retreating, without surrendering, without losing sight of who you are and whose you are.

This book is about that standing.

The ancient church understood something we have largely forgotten: that believers on earth are the Church Militant, the body of Christ still engaged in the conflict, still pressing forward under the banner of the King. Our brothers and sisters who have gone before us, those who have finished the race and passed through death into the presence of Christ, are the Church Triumphant. They have crossed over. We have not. And until we do, we are not yet in the throne room. We are behind enemy lines. We are ambassadors of a kingdom that this world did not invite, representing a King it does not yet acknowledge, carrying a message it desperately needs.

That is the situation. That is the context. And it changes everything about how we are meant to live.

For too long, the church in the West has attempted to navigate this reality without a code. Individual believers drift through their days with little framework for what faithfulness actually looks like under pressure: when the culture ridicules, when temptation intensifies, when spiritual fog makes the truth feel far away. We have settled for religious feeling when what we need is spiritual formation. We have reached for comfort when what Scripture offers is training. We have wanted rescue when what God is producing is readiness.

The pages that follow are an attempt to give language to what faithful, disciplined, Christ-anchored living looks like for the Church Militant today.

We will examine what kind of war we are actually in, and why so many believers are exhausted from fighting the wrong enemy. We will look honestly at the nature of sin and the disciplines that make holiness not merely an aspiration but a practiced reality. We will walk carefully through the armor of God in Ephesians 6, not as a checklist to be recited but as a code of conduct to be lived. We will consider prayer not as a religious habit but as the forward command post of spiritual warfare. And we will keep one eye fixed on the certain triumph of the Lamb, because the soldier who knows how the battle ends fights differently than the one who does not.

This is not a book about fear. It is a book about readiness.

It is not a manual for surviving until Christ returns. It is a field guide for advancing, faithfully, soberly, joyfully, until we are called home.

The Church Triumphant is waiting. The victory is already decided. But there is still ground to hold, still people to reach, still a world that has not yet heard what we have been entrusted to proclaim.

So we stand. We put on the full armor. We pray without ceasing.

And we do not quit.

This book is written for those who are tired of playing it safe and ready to be useful.

PART I. THE WAR WE ARE IN 

Chapter 1. Two Churches. One Mission

Chapter 2. The Enemy Is Not Who You Think

Chapter 3. Sin. Discipline. And the Race We Must Run 

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PART II. THE NEED FOR A CHRISTIAN CODE OF CONDUCT

Chapter 4. Lessons from the Military Code of Conduct 

Chapter 5. Christ’s Ambassadors Behind Enemy Lines 

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PART III. THE ARMOR OF GOD AS A CODE OF CONDUCT

Chapter 6. The Call to Stand 

Chapter 7. The Belt of Truth. Identity Secured

Chapter 8. The Breastplate of Righteousness. Protected Living

Chapter 9. Shoes of Readiness. The Gospel of Peace

Chapter 10. The Shield of Faith. Trust Under Fire 

Chapter 11. The Helmet of Salvation. Guarding the Mind 

Chapter 12. The Sword of the Spirit. God’s Word in Action

PART IV. PRAYER AS THE WAR ROOM

Chapter 13. Prayer as Spiritual Command and Control

Chapter 14. Learning to Pray Like a Soldier 

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PART V. DAILY CONDUCT FOR THE CHURCH MILITANT

Chapter 15. The Discipline of Daily Repentance

Chapter 16. Words as Weapons or Wounds

Chapter 17. Living Faithfully Until the End

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PART VI. FROM BATTLEFIELD TO THRONE ROOM

Chapter 18. The Certain Triumph of the Lamb

Chapter 19. The Final Debrief What we carry into glory

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APPENDICES

Appendix A. Christian Code of Conduct

Appendix B. Life Change

• God's cover letter, applying for Lord of your life (Isaiah 40)

• Profound tranquility when we accept Peace that Jesus gives
  

•  Practicing the presence of God (Philippians 4:6-8)

• Powerful ways to overcoming Satan

• Epaphras: The Prayer Warrior (Colossians 4:12) and Results (Colossians 1:3-8)
  

Appendix C. Recommended Reading

• Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, Donald Whitney

• On Being a Servant of God, Warren Wiersbe

• On Being a Leader for God, Warren Wiersbe

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Intended Outcomes of the Book

• Strengthen spiritual discipline

• Clarify spiritual warfare

• Train believers to stand

• Anchor faith in Scripture

• Prepare Christians for faithful endurance

• Shift focus from survival to victory

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"Jesus, where are we going?" Matthew 11:29-30

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” - Matthew 11:29-30

Enjoyed dinner with my brother yesterday and prayer on the way home for Alpha, Teen Challenge with our prayer team. Tuesday was great with just Dan and Heather, the big idea was How am I going to get through this?” In this session we address questions of the heart: seeking to find purpose in pain and strategies for dealing with disappointment.

The session illustrated Jesus in the garden of praying with people he trusted, with his pain, he trusted God's purpose... like making olive oil through pressing the Olives. The oil both anoints and gives light.

At the end of the session we clenched our fists with the thing we've been disappointed about and then opened our hands in prayer. 

We reminded each other that we understand our situation, community, and loved ones better when we come into the presence of God in prayer. 

This as well as our doctrine for BSF prepared me perfectly for my conversation with my brother. I got to share my eternal life in heaven as we sat together in a booth at a restaurant. God does immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine, yet he invites us to ask and imagine. Halleluiah! 

Core Themes from Matthew 11:29-30 and related scriptures 

1. Exchanging Burdens — Not Eliminating Them Jesus doesn't promise an absence of load — He offers a different yoke. The contrast with Matthew 23:4 is sharp: religious leaders pile on weight they won't carry themselves. Christ carries His yoke with you. The burden is real; the bearer changes.

2. Rest as Relationship, Not Escape The rest Jesus offers isn't passive withdrawal — it's found by learning from Him (v.29). Hebrews 4:9-11 connects this to Sabbath rest, and Jeremiah 6:16 roots it in ancient paths. Rest is the fruit of walking rightly with God, not stepping away from life.

3. Humility as the Gate to Rest Christ describes Himself as "gentle and humble in heart." The men who find no rest are often the ones too proud to admit they're exhausted, too self-sufficient to ask for help. 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 inverts this completely — weakness becomes the access point for Christ's power.

4. Misplaced Labor Leads to Emptiness Isaiah 55:2-3 cuts at the root: men exhaust themselves on things that don't satisfy. The yoke of ambition, approval, and achievement is heavy precisely because it never delivers what it promises.

5. Community as Part of the Design Galatians 6:2 ties burden-bearing to fulfilling the law of Christ. Rest isn't purely individual — it's experienced in part through men who carry weight together.

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Practical Applications for Christian Men

Stop performing, start learning. "Learn from Me" is the command. Men tend to act before they listen. Build a regular rhythm — Scripture, prayer, silence — that is about formation, not productivity.

Name what you're actually carrying. 1 Peter 5:7 assumes you know what your anxiety is before you cast it. Sit with that question honestly: What burdens are self-imposed? What came from others' expectations? What is genuinely yours to carry?

Reclaim Sabbath as conviction, not inconvenience. Hebrews 4 treats rest as something you must "make every effort to enter." Most men treat rest as what's left after everything else is done. Protect a day. Treat it as obedience, not luxury.

Let weakness be honest, not hidden. The culture of men — especially in professional life — rewards the appearance of strength. 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 calls this a loss. Find at least one man you can be genuinely weak with.

Audit what you're laboring for. Isaiah 55:2 is the diagnostic question every man needs to ask annually, if not monthly: Is what I'm spending my energy on actually satisfying? If the answer is no, that's not a life problem — it's a worship problem.

Carry someone else's burden this week. Galatians 6:2 is a practice, not a principle. Identify a man in your circle who is heavy-laden. Show up. The rest you find in Christ should overflow into others.

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God’s Purposes in Life’s Hardships The Doctrine of Suffering

“So we rebuilt the wall till all of it reached half its height, for the people worked with all their heart.” (Nehemiah 4:6)

I've had the honor of doing life with people who are suffering in SALT, BSF, MNTC, and grace church. I've been reflecting lately on the psychology of suffering and how gaining higher ground perspective can help. This is only possible when we draw near to God however there's significant roadblocks to doing this with integrity. The problem with us and the Solution (James 4:1-10, Prov 3:1-8, 2 Peter 1:3-11)) is really about maturity. I've seen in my life and the life of others that we can fail to grow into our new nature and flourish. That we survive, stay alive, and sometimes thrive is a miracle. In BSF our goal is to magnify God and mature his people.

• The field is the world, and the good seed represents the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, Matthew 13:38
• I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one. John 17:15
• In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Ephesians 6:16
• But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one. 2 Thessalonians 3:3

Yesterday I had a divine appoint with a friend who's going through several hardships and beginning to desire a new way to live. We talked about Practical helps to overcome addiction (Allen Carr) and how a way of life that "always felt like me" can give way to a new/better life can give freedom. Jesus came to release the captive and set the prisoner free. A captive is bound by force and held against their will. They may be able to survive in captivity but they aren't free. A prisoner is someone who deserves being bound by force against their will. Jesus can to release the captive and set the prisoner free. 

In Luke 4:18-19 (Isaiah 61:1-2; Isaiah 58:6), Jesus declared his mission was to proclaim liberty to captives, heal the brokenhearted, and set the oppressed free. Fulfilling this prophecy, He came to release humanity from the bondage of sin, spiritual darkness, fear, and emotional brokenness, offering salvation through faith. 

Key aspects of Jesus setting the captives free include:

• Release from Sin & Guilt: Delivering individuals from the power of sin, spiritual oppression, and the condemnation of the law.
• Freedom from Oppression: Breaking the bondage of fear, addiction, emotional trauma, and generational curses.
• Spiritual Transformation: Offering a new nature and enabling people to become righteous before God as a free gift.
• Fulfillment of Prophecy: Jesus identified this as his central mission, quoting Isaiah 61 in the synagogue to announce that the time of salvation and divine favor had arrived. 
• This liberation is not just physical, but a freedom of the soul and spirit, aiming to heal those crushed by life's calamities. 

As we study Nehemiah 4-6 we learn that any good and significant work encounters challenges. Pressing deadlines, changing priorities, and shortfalls in people and provisions are pitfalls that often arise between planning and completing a project. Serial setbacks lead many to believe the journey is impossible and the project insurmountable. Others embrace challenges as opportunities that stimulate and invigorate growth.

Genuine work for God faces even greater opposition that can make a task, project, or calling seem like a lashing tempest. Satan, a motivated spiritual enemy, fuels his forces with countless evil schemes and debilitating strategies at his disposal. Fallen humans can also launch a rogue wave of strident opposition. The enemy’s undercover work grows from an ominous ripple to a raging tsunami with an unseen undertow, attempting to drag victims into an overpowering sea. However, the battle belongs to the Lord. In His hands, currents that come against God’s faithful people become catalysts for growth and sanctification. Enduring work for the Lord requires our prayerful planning and His protection. As we turn to God, He equips, encourages, motivates, and matures those who steadfastly trust Him through trials and tribulation. Victory is assured, and the glory is His.

The key for us is to follow Nehemiah's leadership example and appeal to God (Nehemiah 4:4-5) – When scorned, Nehemiah turned to God in prayer. Similar to prayers of deliverance with which he was likely familiar (Psalms 74; 79),  Nehemiah opened his prayer by expressing honest vulnerability. He represented a despised people - not only in this current circumstance but throughout history (Genesis 12:3; Joel 3:2; Zechariah 12:2-3; Matthew 24:4-14; Luke 21:24). Nehemiah recognized God’s power and cried out to Him, asking that He would turn the enemies’ insults back on their heads. Rather than take matters into his own hands, Nehemiah understood and trusted that vengeance and judgment rightfully belong to the Lord (Romans 12:19). 

So onto the Doctrine talk

Nehemiah secured permission and delegated the workforce to rebuild Jerusalem’s wall. Even so, Nehemiah faced external and internal challenges as he sought God’s purposes. First, a Samaritan administrator’s anger manifested into ugly taunts and violent threats. Always dependent on prayer, Nehemiah turned to God. He wisely prepared his people with plans to protect themselves from the Satan-induced schemes of their enemies and encouragement to continue working. Always on the prowl, Satan wants to devour God’s people and thwart God’s plans.

Why is hardship and suffering happening?

• Rebellion against God resulted in separation from Him and brought incalculable pain to creation (obituaries)
• Suffering comes as a consequence of sin’s presence in our world, but God can accomplish His purposes through our suffering (dispositions)
• Discounting the doctrine of suffering requires ignoring the reality and result of sin in our lives. (Depraved psychology)
• Coming to terms with suffering’s source and solution requires living in the hope only Jesus provides (Unfathomable hope)
• When I do not believe that God works through suffering, I question God’s goodness and wisdom when life gets hard, pulling away from Him rather than running to Him.
• When I believe that God is sovereign over suffering, I know that no matter what I experience or how long it lasts, God is with me. He is working all things together for good, and He will always be with His suffering people.

God uses suffering and life’s challenges to build faithful character and draw His people closer

to Him.

– Suffering causes us to lean on, trust, and surrender to God in ways we may not have before.

– Suffering exposes our need and neediness, leading us to depend on God.

– What suffering are you undergoing today? What are you learning about yourself and your God through it?

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The problem with us and the Solution (James 4:1-10, Prov 3:1-8, 2 Peter 1:3-11))

Enjoying Being humble enough to agree with God and how this relates with drawing near to God, humbly summitting ourselves to Him (James 4:6-8). Either we resist the devil or find ourselves opposed to God. Reading James 4, there's a pattern of resisting the flesh, the world and devil I haven't noticed before. 

Fights and quarrels come from the desires that battle within (flesh). These are covetousness or self focused motives. When we desire things for our own pleasure, we aren't asking God but complaining to him (James 4:1-3). James describes this as friendship with the world as being adulterous, arousing God's jealous longing for us. (James 4:4-5). Yet God gives us more grace (Prov 3:34) when we store his commands in our heart, holding on to loyalty and kindness as a leash around your neck and a heart deep commitment to God and people (Prov 3:1-4).

Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding, seek his will in all you do and he will show you which path to take (Romans 12:1-3). Prov 3:5-6

Not impressed with your selfish wisdom, instead fear the LORD, turn away from evil. Then healing comes to your body and strength for your bones (Prov 3:7-8)

Honor the LORD with your wealth, the BEST of everything you produce, then he will provide abundantly more than we can ask or imagine (Eph 3:20) Prov 3:9-10

Don't reject or be upset by the LORD's discipline and correction, see his loving face from an elevation that gives perspective on the past and future (Heb 11-12) Prov 3:11-12

What are hearts truly hunger for is the freedom in Christ, the fruit of the Spirit, that delights our neighbor in love (Galatians 5). Joyful is the person who finds wisdom and then gains understanding (Pilgrim's Progress). This is the win-win of long life and riches and honor, personified as a guide we can embrace tightly. Prov 3:13-18

By wisdom the LORD founded the earth and by understanding created the heavens, his knowledge is rushing stream of living water and gentle dew beneath the night sky. Prov 3:19-20

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