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Copyright: ©2009 Jan Merop
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TRUE WISDOM

By: Jan Merop

Has there ever been a more intense need for wisdom than we have right now in our nation, in our world?

Financial stress has translated into lost jobs, lost housing and lost thinking.  People are asking, “Where do I go from here?”  “How can I support my family?”  “We were getting by on credit cards and debt, what happened?”

Intelligent financial advisors did their best for investors/retirees, but the bottom still fell out.  Yet, the ‘wisdom’ of today’s leaders will enslave us with greater debt.

Knowledge isn’t wisdom.  That’s why a good education, though a worthy possession, can turn into arrogance and pride.  Such leads to greed, power-grabbing and self-centered interests.  But true wisdom knows how to apply knowledge because it doesn’t deny the core of reality.   

Since it seems that the usual paths of wisdom have let us down, might we be ready to consider looking up to find true wisdom?

True wisdom comes from God.  Without him at the center, we’re blown about like tumbleweed. 

The framers of our Constitution – many who were educated men of means along with others who were not – knew that their own wisdom apart from God would never see them through the monumental endeavor they pursued.  While declaring their independence from Great Britain, they declared their dependence on God.

When we read the Bible as God’s love letter to us, we will be better able to receive its warnings – seeing the heart of love and protection behind the writing.

The Bible speaks of two types of wisdom – worldly wisdom and godly wisdom.   The wisdom of the world relies on self-sufficiency determining its own path.  It hangs onto its own resourcefulness and has no room for God – the result of our first parents’ relying on their own wit when questioned by Satan, “Has God indeed said…?”

And so, worldly wisdom continues to try and usurp godly wisdom.

We are warned in I Corinthians 3: 19, NKJV, “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.  For it is written, ‘He catches the wise in their own craftiness’.” 

However, when we believe God is who he says he is – Creator, Sustainer, and Redeemer of the universe and individuals – we realize it is far wiser to seek his mind than rely solely on our own thinking.  As a result, full reality is embraced and the door to exploitation is closed.

Today, the blurring of the lines between right and wrong has become increasingly smeared.  Children no longer see that difference lived out before them.  They watch wrong lived out as right and right put down as wrong.

The Bible warns us with these words in Isaiah 5: 20 and 21, NKJV, “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness.  Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!  Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!”

The gods of materialism, money and power are toppling rapidly.  Will we still look to big government for solutions that will only bankrupt our future?  

Instead, what if we pray for godly wisdom and heed the words found in Proverbs 9: 10, NKJV, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”

Come to him humbly and gain his understanding to apply wisdom practically in the every day occurrences of life.

God offers true wisdom to those who ask in faith.

"Real Answers™" furnished courtesy of The Amy Foundation Internet Syndicate. To contact the author or The Amy Foundation, write or E-mail to: P. O. Box 16091, Lansing, MI 48901-6091; amyfoundtn@aol.com

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