James 3.13 observes, if you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life,
doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom.
Everyone wants wisdom, or at least we always want to make the right decision. Always making the right decision is not really wisdom from God’s perspective. (more…)
1 Corinthians 3.18-19 commands, if you think you are wise by this world’s standards, you need to 
become a fool to be truly wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As the Scriptures say, “He traps the wise in the snare of their own cleverness.”
Recently deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia put it this way, ‘God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools…and He has not been disappointed. Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ’s sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world. If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.’
Justice Scalia’s challenge is immensely timely for this generation of Christians. (more…)
1 Chronicles 10:13-14 explains, Saul died because he was unfaithful to the Lord; he did not keep the word of the Lord and even consulted a medium for guidance, and did not inquire of the Lord. So the Lord put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.
Imagine being hand chosen by God to be the first king over His people. Pretty high honor. You would also think the vetting process would have been the best. Yet, like the first man created, Adam, this first king was a failure. (more…)
1 Corinthians 3.19 reveals the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight.
No one wants to be the fool. The fool is that person who just doesn’t seem to know what’s going on or how to appropriately assimilate into the mainstream.
No doubt God was such a person when He lived among us as Jesus. Probably explains from the human dimension why He was so adamantly hated by the leadership of His time. Jesus continued to live and teach against the common flow of thinking while being able to so perfectly, logically and easily defend His wisdom from God.
So what is the wisdom of the world that is foolish to God? (more…)
Proverbs 1:7 instructs how a man becomes wise? The first step is to trust and reverence the Lord!
Everyone wants wisdom. At least everyone wants to make the right decisions! There is a difference.
We make hundreds of decisions daily but the big ones cause us anxiety because failure to get it right can lead to serious financial loss and personal unhappiness. The root desire for wanting wisdom in this instance is selfish; we want to be happy, we want to be successful and we don’t want pain or suffering.
This is not why God gives wisdom.
The first step toward gaining wisdom is to trust and reverence the Lord.
Wisdom is given so we might know God and how to please Him in everything we do. (more…)
Matthew 24.45 asks are you a wise and faithful servant of the Lord? What does it mean to be a wise and faithful servant of the Lord? Wise, in the…
Matthew 15.9 condemns teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. There are many things being taught in the Church that contradict what is written in the Bible. Instead of being…
1 Corinthians 2.7 proclaims we speak the wisdom of God. The wisdom of God Paul contrasts with the wisdom of the world. The world finds the wisdom of God foolish…
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