Wiser

Wisdom. What a priceless quality to have in life.

How will I know what to do with my time from day to day? Wisdom. How will I make a decision on a pressing issue? Wisdom. How will I respond to challenging behaviour from those who claim to love me? Wisdom. How will I engage in the relationships that matter most in life? Wisdom.

The thing about wisdom is that just because I used it yesterday, doesn’t me an it’s good enough for today. Every day in every given situation I need wisdom. The more I use it, the more I need it and the more I need it, the more I realise how readily available it is, if I submit myself to it and learn to live by it.

Thankfully, I read of a great example in scripture and because of Him, there are others who have likewise learnt to grow and learn to live by wisdom. The really endearing and touching quality of all those role models who have displayed wisdom for me to witness is that they are all the more committed after their latest accomplishment to become wiser.

Those accomplishments is not really primarily about things. It’s about people. It’s not really about trophies and profits, tribute ceremonies and plaques. It is about that experience of seeing another life touched by the effects of wise living.

In as much as it is a quality to be valued highly, it’s also not always one that’s made desirable because of the counterfeit type of wisdom doing the rounds. It’s been doing the rounds a long time and has an outstanding marketing strategy. Appeal to basic selfish lusts in as many guises as possible. Attract by the possibility of gaining power, popularity and prosperity and no wonder the counterfeit wisdom is so attractive.

Attractive, but deadly. Appealing but fatal. So many people falling for it. So many entrapped by it. So many people suffering because of it and not seeing a way out.

It makes it all the more important to look to Jesus every moment of the day and in whatever way I can ask Him to help me. Help me by applying everything He teaches, growing every day to be …

Wiser.

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For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

C. L. J. Dryden