The Importance of Wisdom
Wisdom. The Lord used the quill of Solomon to tell us:Proverbs 4:7
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| Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. |
So that there is no question of the importance of obtaining this precious commidity. The question that is vital to answer is when do you know that you have it?
A Certain Rabbi Ben Azai made the following statement:
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| In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool. |
Is that true? I don't believe so. According to God's Word it is possible to know when you have obtained wisdom.
Here is the needed Scriptural filter through which you may discern the origin of your "perceived" wisdom.
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| Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. -James 3:13-18 |
Why is this such a great filter? Because it reflects the fruit of the Spirit and the New Testament Truth of how believers can have wisdom. Paul was used to say it so well in I Corinthians
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| But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who of God is made to us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption; so that, according as it is written, "He who glories, let him glory in the Lord." 1 Corinthians 1:30-31 |
We will know that we have obtained, through Christ, godly wisdom, when it is Pure, Peacable, Gentle, and Easy to be Intreated. When the wisdom that we express is anything less than that, it is fleshly and to be rejected.
On this side of eternity we will not reach a point of "arrival" but God's Word is clear, that we can, and ought to obtain wisdom. In a follow-up post, we will explore the process of searching for Wisdom.
Posted On May 15, 2006 at 0:00 AM
On May 15, 2006 Doug wrote: When I taught that passage in James to our youth group, I showed them some B.C. comics, with the guy climbing to the top of the mountain to ask the "guru" a question. But wisdom doesn't have a whole lot to do with hermits sitting on a mountain top dispensing wisdom.
Most people don't think of being gentle, peaceful, pure and unwavering as being measuring rods of wisdom.
Trent Replied: So many times we are fleshly, even if we are right. These verses in James are a constant rebuke and reminder to me. The quest for True Wisdom continues.
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