COMMON SENSE

Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares;
at the head of the noisy streets she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech:

"How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?

If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts known to you.

But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand, since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke, I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you -
when calamity overtakes you like a storm,
when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind,
when distress and trouble overwhelm you.

"Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me.

Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the LORD, since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke, they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.

For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them; but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm."

- PROVERBS 1:20 - 33 -

Common sense can be learned from experience or the teaching we receive from those we trust. But God's Word is the best source of all to develop discernment and good judgment.
Three words echo throughout the book of Proverbs: WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING. God has packed this book with common sense.
To get more common sense, consult God's Word - the source of wisdom - daily. - Cindy Hess Kasper -

A man who lacks judgment derides his neighbor, but a man of understanding holds his tongue. (Proverbs 11:12)
A man of knowledge uses words with restraint, and a man of understanding is even-tempered. (Proverbs 17:27)
Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare. (Proverbs 20:13)
For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. (Proverbs 2:6)

TO GAIN A HEART OF WISDOM:
Ask God for it (James 1:5)
Read regularly from the Proverbs.
Seek out godly counsel (Proverbs 11:14; 15:22; 19:20)

KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT COMMON SENSE IS FOLLY

THE PLANTING

So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven. As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven.

I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

- 1 CORINTHIANS 15:42-53 -

Even though the body of believer in Christ is buried in ground, it will one day be raised to new life. Our natural body is weak, but our spiritual body will be free from sickness, decline, and death. Our new body will be glorified, endowed with power, and like Jesus' resurrection body.

We look forward to that day when the trumpet sounds, the dead in Christ are raised, and "we shall be changed". As we anticipate that day, let's spread the good news of our victory over death through Jesus. - Anne Cetas -

Our Savior's life for us was given
That we might one day bloom in heaven,
Our mortal bodies changed to be
Like His through all eternity!
- Spicer -

CHRIST'S RESURRECTION GUARANTEES OUR OWN

GETTING THROUGH

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.
Selah

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy place where the Most High dwells.

God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day.

Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts.

The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.
Selah

Come and see the works of the LORD, the desolations he has brought on the earth.

He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear,
he burns the shields with fire.

"Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth."

The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.
Selah

- PSALM 46 -

Communication with God is a two-way street. He speaks to us through His Word when we come attentively before Him in prayer and through the clear voice of the indwelling Spirit. He paid a great price to keep the lines open so that we can experience the joy of being still long enough to know that He is God.
The joy of hearing His voice is a call you don't want to miss! - Joe Stowell -

'Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.' (Jeremiah 33:3)

I will listen to what God the LORD will say; he promises peace to his people, his saints — but let them not return to folly. (Psalm 85:8)

And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.
- Miles -

IS GOD GETTING THROUGH TO YOU?