What Is Wisdom and How Can I Get Some?
Wisdom. Everyone wants it. We all would like to be perceived as wise. We all want people to think that we possess some kind of knowledge that they don't have but how can we when we don't even know what wisdom really is? Or who wisdom?
Who is wisdom? Is it possible for wisdom to be a person? How absurd of me to make such a claim, but it is true. Wisdom is a person, a supreme being, the deity of all deities: Wisdom is Jesus Christ. Just look at the definition:
Wisdom–noun
1. the quality or state of being wise; knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just judgment as to action; sagacity, discernment, or insight.
2. scholarly knowledge or learning: the wisdom of the schools.
3. wise sayings or teachings; precepts.
4. a wise act or saying.
Jesus is all of those things and more. He has knowledge of what is true and right because he is the truth, "I am the way, the truth, and the life..." John 14:6. He executes fair judgment with discernment and insight that no one else has. You know the wise saying, "he who is without sin, cast the first stone"? Well, that was Jesus. That was the judgment He decreed when the scribes and Pharisees presented the case of a woman caught in adultery.
"They say unto him, Master this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." John 8:4-7
Now, by no means was Jesus saying adultery is acceptable behavior, when he was done he commanded the woman, to sin no more but he did not condemn her nor did he allow her accusers to.
Everything that Jesus said was wise, is wise and applicable to life no matter what stage of life you're at or what you are facing. When Jesus went into the temple he taught. "And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them." John 8:2
Jesus is wisdom, come down to man. Now how does one acquire wisdom? By seeking Jesus by searching the scriptures. and living your life according to the word. By accepting Jesus for who he says he is, God and letting him be Lord in your life. That truly is an example of a wise person.
Next week, if it be the will of God, I will begin discussing wisdom from the book of Proverbs.
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