Getting Wisdom To Face Today's World
By: Lizmat
“Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding. Esteem her and she will honour you.” (NIV) Proverbs 4: 7-8
People think that formal education is everything that matters. Do you know why? It is because this world has made it so. We spend countless hours and days studying books that were written by men for exams in order to be awarded earthly and physical degrees, degrees that fade away and lose their value with time. We forget that our Christian life is a learning process and each day God expects us to pass the tests of time and challenges that come our way as our exams to qualify us for an everlasting degree of glory after death.
Our only text book is the Bible, which God provided after long years of compilations to help us succeed in this world. But what do we see? We have occupied ourselves with things of this world that are temporary and have deserted God’s Word. Remember, the wisdom of God is the word of God and Christ is that Word. All the temporary things in this world in which we have placed our trust have failed us in one way or the other: friends, family, work etc. it is therefore important that we rely on God’s Word to succeed. We must give it the deserved attention and importance in our lives and we will eat of its fruit: promotion.
Joseph is a typical example of a man that relied totally on the wisdom of God and it exalted him from a prisoner to a prime minister of the most powerful empire overnight. What can’t she (wisdom) do for you?
Hymn:Precious Words
O the joy while thus we meet,
Learning here at Jesus’ feet
Words of truth that point the way
To realms of day!
Precious words of worth untold,
Ever new but never old,
May we read them o’er and o’er,
And love them more.