True Wisdom

True wisdom, where does it come from?  I think true wisdom comes from the Lord and if a person has it, he is truly blessed.  Wisdom helps us know what to do with the knowledge we have.  Wisdom is the ability to look at circumstances and situations and judge correctly.  Practical wisdom is a must in a believer’s life so that they can discern right from wrong and make the right choice.  Knowledge is very important also, that is why everyone should have a good education, but knowledge can only take you so far, wisdom gives you the ability to use that knowledge in the right way.

Think about Solomon, King David’s son, being raised by David the king of Israel.  He must have had a lot of knowledge, he must have known the ‘ins’ and ‘outs’ of kingship, as far as his duties were concerned, but he knew there would be many decisions he would have to make that would take more than knowledge; they would take divine intervention and much godly wisdom.  It wasn’t like he didn’t have any wisdom, just the fact that he prayed for wisdom showed that he had some wisdom, but he knew that he couldn’t rely on his own wisdom, he needed God’s wisdom to rule over the great majority of God’s people that would be under his authority.

Question: have you sought God’s wisdom lately or are you content using your own wisdom?  We have this privilege and promise in James 1:5, “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.”  Like Solomon, we need divine godly wisdom also.  

Let me show you an example where Solomon needed divine intervention resulting in godly wisdom, not only to judge unusual situations but to rule God’s people in general.  You can find this story in 1 Kings 3:16-28, “Now two women who were harlots came to the king, and stood before him.  And one woman said, ‘O my lord, this woman and I dwell in the same house; and I gave birth while she was in the house.  Then it happened, the third day after I had given birth, that this woman also gave birth.  And we were together; no one was with us in the house, except the two of us in the house.  And this woman’s son died in the night, because she lay on him.  So she arose in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your maidservant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.  And when I rose in the morning to nurse my son, there he was, dead.  But when I had examined him in the morning, indeed, he was not my son whom I had borne.’

Then the other woman said, ‘No! But the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.’  And the first woman said,  ‘No! But the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.’  Thus they spoke before the king. And the king said, ‘The one says, ‘This is my son, who lives, and your son is the dead one’; and the other says, ‘No!  But your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’  Then the king said, ‘Bring me a sword.’  So they brought a sword before the king.  And the king said, ‘Divide the living child in two, and give half to one, and half to the other.’  Then the woman whose son was living spoke to the king, for she yearned with compassion for her son; and she said, ‘O my lord, give her the living child, and by no means kill him!  ‘But the other said, ‘Let him be neither mine nor yours, but divide him.’  So the king answered and said, ‘Give the first woman the living child, and by no means kill him; she is his mother.’  And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had rendered; and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.”

This is just one example of why Solomon would need divine, godly wisdom for the task he had before him.  If King Solomon needed divine godly wisdom, so do we.  We might not have the great responsibly that he had but we all need to know right from wrong and to make right judgments in the circumstances and situations we face in our lives.  

The Word says this about wisdom, along with many other things in Psalms 111:10, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all those who do His commandments.  His praise endures forever.”   There is only one way to become truly wise and that is to fear (reverence) the Lord.  He is the only one that can impart true wisdom, trying to lean on your past experiences will end in frustration and failure, far too often.

Read what the wisest King said about this subject at the end of the book of Ecclesiastes in chapter 12 verses 13-14, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all.  For God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.”

Something to think about, have a super day and may God bless you!!