You can achieve the highest education possible for man, be able to recite the bible word for word, be able to remember everything you have ever done and when you did it. If we were to place a title to the above it would be knowledge. However knowledge in itself us useless to you, the world or to The Lord if you don’t put it to good use. That my friends is wisdom.
The Lord tells us if we ask wisdom He will give it to us. It is how we use knowledge that makes all or any difference in our lives. Do we use it wisely? Knowledge is abused by not using or abusing it. If you do not use it you lose it. We work so hard to study, take test to achieve academic excellence and yet most of what we learn we never use. Again unused knowledge us useless.
Notice the difference here. Knowledge is earned and achieved, wisdom is free. Yet of the two the Most valuable is wisdom. Yes, the best things in life are free. I believe that is why we have such a hard time accepting salvation, it’s free.
Now, when we put our knowledge to use, we choose to use it or misuse it. Use it for good or evil. Whichever path we choose determines our success, failure and even our eternal destination. Even though wisdom is free the majority search the world in a failed attempts to find it. Instead of asking God to reveal it to us we keep searching everywhere but where it actually is.
HERE IS WHERE TO FIND IT
There is an old story that reveals the origin in a most simple yet absolute way.
In ancient times wisdom was being abused and misused for selfish reasons. The king called all of the wise men of the kingdom to his palace. He told them that wisdom was being so abused that they have to put their heads together and hide it where man would not be able to find it.
One of the wise men said we can hide it on top of the highest mountain where man could not find it. The chief of the wise men said, but man would find a way and climb to the top of the mountain and find it.
Another wiseman said we can bury it deep in the earth so deep man will not find it. Again the chief of the wiseman said, but man would find a way to dig to the deepest parts of earth and find it.
A third wiseman said we can hide it in the deepest parts of the sea. No man would be able to find it there.
Once again the chief wiseman said, but man would find a way to dive deep into the sea and find it.
All the wiseman were perplexed. They said then there is no place on earth, in the earth or under the earth where we can hide wisdom that it would not be found. Where can we hide it?
The chief of the wiseman said, we will hide wisdom within man himself, he will never think of looking for it there.
That may be why our Lord Puts so much emphases on our internal matters. Once we have our internal matters in proper prospective, we will know how to use the wisdom that God freely gives us for external needs in a very positive way.
Are you confused about what to do, where to go? Look for the answer inward coming from God and not external coming from man.
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