Wisdom Shouts - The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids

Wisdom shouts in the streets.

She cries out in the public square. . . .

Come and listen to my counsel.

I’ll share my heart with you

and make you wise. Proverbs 1:20, 23

ALL OF US, if left to ourselves, are naturally foolish. But God is too good to leave us floundering in our foolishness. He comes to us offering wisdom. Yet he is even more active than that. God does not quietly make the offer of wisdom known; he shouts it in the streets. It’s as if he is standing on the back of a flatbed truck waving his hands, trying to get us to stop barreling down the highway of life and choosing our own way so that he can point us in another direction. He wants to save us from ending up where that dead-end road will take us. He wants us to find our way home —to him.

In the pages of the Bible, and especially in the book of Proverbs, God calls out from the highest heights to us, and to our children, insisting that there are really only two paths in this life —one that leads to death and misery, and one that leads to life and joy. He offers exactly what we need to navigate life while enjoying his presence along the way and finding him fully at our final destination.

God of all wisdom, we hear you shouting in the street, offering to share your heart with us and to make us wise. As much as we love our children, we want to love them the way you love them. So please share your heart with us. And as much as we want to lead and guide our children, we know that we can’t do it without the wisdom that comes from you. So please make us wise.

Lord, please keep shouting in the streets to ________. Keep crying out to her to come to you and listen to your counsel. Give ________ the will to open up your Word day by day to hear from you. Don’t let ________ be a fool who hates knowledge. Make ________ wise.