Bible Reading: Ecclesiastes 10: 1-20
“If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: But wisdom is profitable to direct” – Ecclesiastics 10:10 (KJV).
To ensure sharp cutting edge, wisdom demands that one sharpens the tool. Where the tool or working instrument is blunt, more energy is dispensed and less progress is made. For efficiency and effectiveness in life and ministry, one must sharpen one’s skills, walk in knowledge and understanding. Purposes are destroyed for lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6).
Hard work alone does not guarantee good harvest or prosperity. There is the need for wisdom and diligence. So many people work so hard but achieve little or nothing, making no appreciable success for lack of wisdom. The right application of knowledge is wisdom. One can spend so much time and energy trying to force open a door but wisdom is profitable to direct. Wisdom arms or equips one with the key or skill to open closed doors.
People are poor not necessarily for lack of money but for lack of ideas that will bring money. We work with blunt tool when we fail to develop skills and the know-how. We waste energy, time, and materials, suffer harm and lose other resources when we use blunt tools, but we save resources when we develop skills and wisdom. Lack of personal development and people development is the result of the frustration most people face. Poverty is first a product of the mind. Both poverty and prosperity are products of the mind. In fact, mental poverty is worse than financial or physical poverty. To be poor means to: Pass Over Opportunities Repeatedly.
There is the need to sharpen your mind through study and meditation, to develop skills and to wet your tools in prayer so you can maintain a sharp cutting edge, save kingdom resources and make satisfactory and meaningful progress in life.
PRAYER: Oh God, give me a sharp cutting edge in ministry.
Rev. Vincent Diolu