Immanuel Lutheran High School, College, and Seminary
Eau Claire, WI

2014-08-28 ILC Chapel — Christ is our wisdom.

2014 Chapels -
Christ is our wisdom.

 

Date : 2014-08-28
Speaker : John Pfeiffer

Proverbs 3:13–18 (Listen)

Blessed Is the One Who Finds Wisdom


13   Blessed is the one who finds wisdom,
    and the one who gets understanding,
14   for the gain from her is better than gain from silver
    and her profit better than gold.
15   She is more precious than jewels,
    and nothing you desire can compare with her.
16   Long life is in her right hand;
    in her left hand are riches and honor.
17   Her ways are ways of pleasantness,
    and all her paths are peace.
18   She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her;
    those who hold her fast are called blessed.

(ESV)

Hymn: TLH 366, st. 1,5 :
One Thing’s Needful

Hymnary.org — Organ Audio

1. One thing’s needful; Lord this treasure
Teach me highly to regard;
All else, though it first give pleasure,
Is a yoke that presses hard.
Beneath it the heart is still fretting and striving,
No true, lasting happiness ever deriving.
The gain of this one thing all loss can requite
And teach me in all things to find true delight.

5. Wisdom’s highest, noblest treasure,
Jesus, lies concealed in Thee;
Grant that this may still the measure
Of my will and actions be,
Humility there and simplicity reigning,
In paths of true wisdom my steps ever training.
Oh, if I of Christ have this knowledge divine,
The fulness of heavenly wisdom is mine.