Now, here again, do we? One of the great side effects of modern life with all its complexity and clutter, is that we do not have objectives, we kind of limp along from crisis to crisis and event to event. But there should be objectives for every one of us. In Christian service and in personal areas of our lives we should be saying to ourselves, ‘This year I am going to achieve such and such.’ Do not make that the objective on 1st January and immediately forget it. You have got an objective, a definite target, and you live to it. Now, says the word of God, wisdom requires that kind of life and environment to grow in.
Can I be more purposeful than I have been in the past? Can I put into my life definite objectives and seek to reach them? If I can, then immediately my life has a framework and I am going on in a pattern which I have conceived and I believe it to be right. I have sought the Lord's guidance and I have looked at things I should be doing as a Christian. It helps me to evaluate things that happen to me along the pathway. It helps me to understand, for example, the attacks of the enemy. If my objectives are clearly in mind, I can understand the enemy's motives in attacking me and what he is trying to pull me away from. If I have no clear objectives, no clear direction, when the enemy attacks me I cannot understand what he is doing, what he is trying to deflect me from because I do not know where I am going myself. The word of God is preparing us before we even get to wisdom, to make the room of the heart, the room of the life right to receive such a guest.