Wisdom. It’s crucial.
It’s crucial especially in the instance of knowing when to keep going under trying circumstances and when to notice that those trying circumstances are massive indicators that you should stop and move on.
I am convinced through what I’ve observed on my brief time on the planet, that some people have not really applied that wisdom. Individuals, organisations and projects have kept plugging away at something. They have a goal in their mind and until that goal is met they won’t quit and they won’t give up. Even if better information comes along to suggest that perhaps they need to change their goal. Even if better knowledge emerges that suggest that something better can be achieved for all by a change in the course or the approach. Even in the light of all of that, they keep on keeping on and the trying circumstances is seen as a test of their strength of endurance and the more they keep going, the better they feel about themselves and the mission. Even if they have subtly deluded themselves and cannot face the humiliation of finding out perhaps they were not always right.
It is something significant to stop, reflect, listen and process a stage in the journey and recognise change is needed. It’s significant. It is humbling. It is a reminder of who really is the one setting the course and is the navigator. It also relieves us of any sense of being the one in charge. It relieves us as we trust and obey. That in itself – that desire to ever be sensitive to the leading of the one we follow – that should help with the adjustment. That should be an opportunity to enliven a dynamic engagement with one who is not obliged to live down to our standards of how things should be, but is ever gracious and encouraging to help us up to the new standard of how things are with Him.
As I said, though, it requires a lot of wisdom because holding on for a minute, hour, day, week or month longer in some cases might be all that’s needed to see the faithfulness justified.
We keep trusting, we keep believing, we keep listening, we keep close to the one who is the Way, so we don’t miss it.
That requires a most crucial element – godly wisdom.
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For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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