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Proverbs 4: 7 (NKJV)
Wisdom is the principal thing;
Therefore get wisdom.
And in all your getting, get understanding.
And again in Proverbs 13:16 we are told, Every prudent man acts out of knowledge, but a fool exposes his folly. Great description, but because we are emotional creatures our feelings are often in conflict with wisdom and we are not then prudent and we do play the fool.
Therefore, post these two questions in your mind’s eye and let’s see what we can come up with.
What exactly is wisdom, and what can we do to get more of it?
The dictionary describes wisdom, this friend to our days, as accumulated knowledge, or as common sense.
The Bible is full of moments that lack wisdom.
Take those first two inhabitants of the Garden of Eden.
God had warned Adam and Eve not to eat the forbidden fruit, so it is obvious that when Adam succumbed to his wife’s suggestion to take a bite, it was not one of his most intellectual moments.
His common sense must have told him it was wrong, but he ate it anyway. No wisdom there.
We all know the old phrase, Curiosity killed the cat. In the case of Lot’s wife, it turned her into a pillar of salt. No wisdom there.
Nor was Peter utilizing a great deal of wisdom, and loyalty, when he denied Christ not once, but three times over.
But fear makes us do a lot of things we otherwise would not do. We know what is right yet sometimes we fear what people will say or do, and we go into self-protection mode.
Dumb comes easily to all of us.
I’ve hit my finger with a hammer.
I’ve slammed a car door on my hand.
I’ve stuck my foot in my mouth by saying what afterwards I knew I should have had the good sense not to say.
No wisdom there, either.
We’ve all had stupid moments.
The Bible uses a different, gentler word for it – Foolishness
The foolishness that leads us to sin when we know the sin is just going to get us in trouble.
This kind of stupidity is a moral issue and we break the rules quite often and then suffer the consequences.
It’s bad enough to practice a sin – occasionally, but to make a sin a habit? That’s the kind of foolishness that ignores God. And it’s hard to be more stupid than that.
What was it Paul complained about over and over again? “I’m stupid. ” Well, he didn’t actually use those words, but he keeps complaining about making the same mistakes again and again and again.
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
One thing is for sure. We’re all just a hoot and a holler away from performing some foolish, stupid trick that could ruin our lives. Making some decisions in anger, or in haste, or simply because it’s a wrong thing we simply want to do.
Luckily for us, God gives us second and third, and infinite chances to get it right. And watches with joy when we slowly but surely learn from our mistakes.
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