Understand Your
Heart!
Therefore give to Your servant an understanding
heart to judge Your people, that I may discern
between good and evil. For who is able to
judge this great people of
Yours?
1 Kings 3: 9
The death of President Franklin Roosevelt
abruptly thrust Harry Truman into the
presidency.
He traveled to Capitol Hill to address Congress, and at
the end of his speech he said: “As I have assumed my
heavy duties, I humbly pray AlmightyGod, in the words
of King Solomon: ‘Give therefore thy servant an under-
standing heart to judge thy people, that I may discern
between good and bad; for who is able to judge this
thy so great a
people?"
That’s not just a prayer for kings like
Solomon or presidents like Truman.
It’s a prayer each of us can make
our own.
James 1:5 tells us to ask God for wisdom.
We’re living in days that call for insight, for
the lines between good and evil are blurred.
Let’s learn to ask God for constant wisdom
in our ongoing decisions, and
let’s depend
on Him to give us daily discernment and
wise judgment.
"Help me to remember to pray for wisdom
as
I lead and influence others, drawing
from your Word. Amen."
Joni Eareckson Tada