Which came first, asking for wisdom or having wisdom to ask?

Live it
The term "Catch 22" was used by the military as a means to prevent soldiers from opting out of the armed forces. After all, if you're insane, you'd never be sane enough to ask for discharge based on insanity, would you? It's called circular logic where someone attempts to prove something true by using "facts" not proven true. A perfect example was Darwin in his theory of Evolution. In it, he lays out the origin of man using unproven conjecture as fact. He had no concept of what we today recognize as predictable biologic genetics.

Darwin believed that in the millions of years since the earth was created, (unproven conjecture), random things had time to change certain species into a higher form. This happened, according to Darwin, by virtue of incidental, natural design, which exists outside the influence of a supernatural Creator. Darwin, you know this now, but you can't undo the nonsense you left behind in your books, which educators (oxymoron), blatantly promote as fact. But, now you know. God designed you before your birth and you became the product of your mother and father's reproduction. Your natural design, like everyone else, was the product of genetics, something that's been at work from day one. Forgive me, I meant to say, "Day Six."

Pray it
Scripture says before my birth, you knew me and prescribed my being. You formed me in my mother's womb from the sperm of my father. My first breath as a human was the beginning of a countdown to the day my body dies. But I will see You someday, face to face and there will thank you personally for sending Your only Son to pay my debt and purchase my redemption. This I know as a fact because Your Word is not only factual, it has stood the test of every person who has sought to disprove it through human reasoning. Thank You for lining up my x's and y's so I have a rational mind and can reason properly to give You credit for doing what Scripture said You did.

Resources
Holiness is a position, not a profession or a presumption. (2000)
Apathy in the church is caused by sin, which can't be removed by ignoring it. (2001)
Does your life reveal one of purpose-driven or strife-driven? (2003)
What some view as restriction, others consider as freedom within liberal boundaries. (2004)
The Apostle Paul was one of the first N.T. believers to recognize the indwelling Holy Spirit. (2005)
Devotional (2006)
Composure is often our ability to hold transparency at bay. (2007)
The things of God are not for sale. (2008)

1. One-minute Devotionals began on January 2, 2006 and are the original creation of James R. Green, Prayertower Webservant Content is derived from his alternating and sequential survey of both the Old and New Testament to offer insight on Scripture.
2. Resources are derived from daily devotions of James R. Green called, Just Thinkin'... (2000-2003), Read the Bible Thru in 365 Days (2004), Pray Thru the Word in 365 Days (2005) and One Minute Devotional (2006-2008).
3. Scripture: God's Word Translation (c)1995 by God's Word to the Nations. All Rights Reserved.

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