Thursday, August 14th | Proverbs 9:1-6

Passage:
1 Wisdom has built her house;
she has carved out her seven pillars.
2 She has prepared her meat; she has mixed her wine;
she has also set her table.
3 She has sent out her female servants;
she calls out from the highest points of the city:
4 “Whoever is inexperienced, enter here! ”
To the one who lacks sense, she says,
5 “Come, eat my bread,
and drink the wine I have mixed.
6 Leave inexperience behind, and you will live;
pursue the way of understanding. -- Proverbs 9:1-6 (CSB)

Song:
Wisdom and Grace by Sandra McCracken

Lyrics:
Teach us to number our days
That we may apply our hearts to Your ways
O! Teach us to number our days
with wisdom and grace, wisdom and grace.
Wisdom and grace, wisdom and grace

You've been our home and our dwelling
our place in all generations.
Before the earth or the mountains were formed,
Lord, You were God.

Teach us to number our days
That we may apply our hearts to Your ways
O! Teach us to number our days
with wisdom and grace, wisdom and grace.
Wisdom and grace, wisdom and grace

Now the span of our lives,
It is made of sorrow and labor
As the days pass away like the grass
How soon we are gone.

Teach us to number our days
That we may apply our hearts to Your ways
O! Teach us to number our days
with wisdom and grace, wisdom and grace.
Wisdom and grace

Let the work of our hands bring you praise,
set Your favor upon us.
O establish the work of our hands,
May Your kingdom come!

Teach us to number our days
That we may apply our hearts to Your ways
O! Teach us to number our days
with wisdom and grace, wisdom and grace.
Wisdom and grace, wisdom and grace

Prayer:
Almighty God, and most merciful Father, we humbly submit ourselves, and fall down before your Majesty, asking you from the bottom of our hearts, that this seed of your Word now sown among us, may take such deep root, that neither the burning heat of persecution cause it to wither, nor the thorny cares of this life choke it. But that, as seed sown in good ground, it may bring forth thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold, as your heavenly wisdom has appointed. Amen. 
-Middelburg Liturgy