Seek the Third Solution

Please welcome guest author, Sherri Stewart, to my blog today as she shares about seeking the third solution and her new release, Deer Eyes!

If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
James 1:5, NIV 

Being a believer of Jesus Christ doesn’t mean life will be smooth and easy. Sometimes we face huge dilemmas at work and at home where there doesn’t seem to be a good solution. As an immigration attorney, I dealt with cases like the one with the twenty-four-year-old widow who was being deported to the Philippines because her American husband had died in a car accident while her application for a green card was being processed. But God often gives His children a third option, as He gave me with regard to my widowed client. God brought a happy ending to this case that seemed unsolvable. Often the characters in my books face practical problems with no apparent solution, but they pray and usually find their third option in the Bible.

Ask high school principal, Judd Trudeau, who deals with people problems at work every single day. But what he also has learned is God often gives a third solution when there seems to be no answer. In Deer Eyes, Judd’s most immediate problem is more personal. Newcomer to Bar Harbor, Selah Brighton, is as skittish as a deer in the headlights when he encounters her in Acadia National Park. Once she learns to trust him, together they seek God’s third solution to thwart the plans of the enemy who’s followed her to town. https://amzn.to/3oGaI0s

Author Bio & Links

There’s a lot of me in the book, Deer Eyes. Authors are advised to write what they know, and that’s what I do in all my books. In Deer Eyes, Judd deals with the same conflicts at school as I did as a principal of a Christian school. Selah’s disclosure about her father came straight from my own life as a fourteen-year-old. I’ve written twenty historical fiction/romance and romantic suspense novels. My hobby is traveling to the settings of my books. Next month, I’ll visit Lancaster, Pennsylvania. If you have any suggestions about what I should see, let me know.

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Gaining Godly Wisdom

In the Old Testament, the book of Proverbs gives guidance on how to gain godly wisdom. And with wisdom come knowledge and understanding given to us by God.

My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands
within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding—indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it
as for hidden treasure . . .

Proverbs 2:1-4 (NIV)

There are three “ifs” to gaining wisdom, understanding, and knowledge in the above verses.

• If we accept God’s words, store His commands within our hearts, listen as He speaks, and apply our hearts to understanding

• If we cry out and pray for insight

• If we are persistent to search for wisdom, knowledge, and understanding as the treasures they are

If we do these things as we read in verses 1 through 4, verses 5 and 6 state:

then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the
knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

According to Proverbs when we walk in wisdom, we accept God’s commands (10:8); store up knowledge (10:14); are humble (11:2); are open to advice from others (12:15); overlook insults (12:16); our words bring healing (12:18); we act with knowledge (13:16); are cautious and avoid evil (14:16); control our anger (14:29); listen to correction (15:32); find goodness (16:20); and we are always learning (18:15). I’m sure I missed several others.

In the New Testament we find this verse that confirms God gives wisdom.

If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God,
who gives generously to all without finding fault,
and it will be given to you.

James 1:5 (NIV)

I could always use more godly wisdom, along with knowledge and understanding, and would love others to know me for the above attributes found in Proverbs. How about you? Please add other qualities of wisdom in the comments below.

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