"By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established, by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches." (Proverbs 24:3-4) By wisdom, a house is built. By understanding, it is established. By knowledge, the rooms are filled with precious and pleasant riches. 3 ingredients: wisdom, understanding and knowledge. What's the difference between the 3?

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This morning I was reading in Psalm 62. "For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken. For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken." (Psalm 62:1-2, 5-6) I was reminded that as long as we have God on our side, and we are walking in fellowship with Him, He alone is our source and sufficiency for the present and the future. No man can withstand what He wants to do in our lives. No situation can prevent His purpose and plan and provision. Man is not our rock. God alone is our Rock. We shall not be shaken.

God is so just and holy that He would not allow our sin to go unpunished. God is so loving and full of grace that He sent His own son to die for our sins in our place. Just and holy- for punishing sin. Loving and gracious- for taking our place. He accomplished both justice and love in the same action. His justice wasn’t diminished and His love was amplified. God often shows dual sides of His nature in how He works. This shows up in other ways in Scripture. He is the same God who gives grace to the humble, and yet resists the proud. He is the same God who gives eternity in heaven freely to any who will call on His name and yet says “Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels” to those who reject Him (Matthew 25:41). He is the same God who says everyone is made in God’s image and yet calls the state to bear the sword and punish the wrongdoer. When our view of God comes from only a half lens of Scripture, harmful and often dangerous effects almost always follow.

There are other Jesus' people proclaim who are not the real Jesus. There are other spirits who are not the Holy Spirit. There are different gospels than the real gospel. “But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.” ‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭11‬:‭3‬-‭4‬ ‭ESV‬‬