All of us come here at BG to share in the hopes of moving closer to understanding who we are and what this life is all about. I for one am very grateful for each and every person who comments and shares a part of who they are and their personal journey toward wisdom. Wisdom is different from knowledge. I have known many very bright and intelligent people who lacked in wisdom and I have also known some very humble people with little education that seem to be overflowing with wisdom.
I am a person who has spent a great deal of my adult life studying the bible and a host of other books with the goal of finding true wisdom and yet what little wisdom that I believe I have came not from those studies but rather from a much higher source. As I look at the life of Jesus I am struck by the fact that He also received His wisdom from a source that was beyond his actual ability to learn anything from an educational standpoint. Read the verses below and ask yourself "Where did He get His wisdom?"
Matt 13:53-54 When Jesus had finished these parables, he moved on from there. Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. "Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?" they asked.
I think we too must be very careful not to get caught up in what we THINK is wisdom. Jesus knew that all that he was and all that he did came from a source that had nothing to do with his earthly abilities. He looked within to a power that He was certain of, a power that came from God. Paul, in the following verses reminds us of what true wisdom is and where it comes from:
1 Cor 1:19-31
19 For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."
20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
22 Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom,
23 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
24 but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.
26 Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.
27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
28 He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things — and the things that are not — to nullify the things that are,
29 so that no one may boast before him.
30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God — that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.
31 Therefore, as it is written: "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."
I will be 57 years old on January 13th and I have followed many pathways on my journey, but I still think that Jesus Christ is the key and what I love about Him is that He leaves no one out. It may take us many lifetimes to realize true wisdom but when we do He (Jesus) will be right there with us cheering us on.
