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Who, in your life, would you consider wise?
When we think of wisdom we often think of an older person, they have life experience and give sage advice.
I remember in the movie Second Hand Lions, Haley Joel Osment’s character pleading with Robert Duvall’s character that he stick around because he needs to hear his wisdom on what it means to grow up to be a man.
Or the wise words of Forest Gump’s mother that he is always quoting, who could forget the “Mama always said...” quotes:
“Mama always said, ‘life is like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you’re going to get.’”
Or my personal favorite, “Mama always said, ‘Stupid is as stupid does.’”
In my life I have and have had several people who have spoken wisdom into my life.
I think of my grandmother, or Grams as we called her.
The first person ever to ask if I’d ever considered going into the ministry.
I think I’d been a Christian for 3 weeks at the time.
I could name others, teachers, mentors, pastors, friends.
How can we become wise?
Wisdom is grounding.
It keeps you on course, it guides you, it holds you fast in the midsts of life’s storms.
Jesus said,
We opened this morning we the words of Psalm 1
We’re beginning this morning a series of sermons for the summer in the book of Proverbs.
Proverbs is… “a collection of moral and religious maxims containing instructions concerning right living.
also brief discourses on wisdom, justice, temperance, industry, purity, etc.
In these pithy sayings a sharp contrast is drawn between wisdom and folly, righteousness and sin.” ~ Thompson Chain Reference Bible.
The author of Proverbs is typically said to have been Solomon with the exception of the final chapters 30 and 31.
It was likely written before 931 B.C.
And whenever we look at a book it’s good to know why it was written.
Solomon gives us his reasoning in the prologue of the opening verses:
and gives an admonition in verses 5-6:
Where does wisdom come from?
Well, we don’t want to be a fool, so it seems like it begins with the fear of the Lord.
Now I want to spend a bit of time on that word “Fear”.
I was recently having a discussion about the fear of the Lord in which I commented that it wasn’t so much a fear as it was a “Holy Awe,” a reverence if you will.
Though this is true, I was corrected, in saying that I was softening Scripture.
Scripture does not describe it that way.
This is the God who spoke Creation into being.
This is the LORD who shut the mouths of lions, caused the sun to stand still, who commands the angel of death and gives life.
This is one demanding of more than a Holy Awe, or sense of reverence.
This is the ALL POWERFUL, HOLINESS.
Listen to the words of Jesus in speaking to how we worry about what those around us say or do to us, instead of the One that really matters:
This is more than a “holy awe” or reverence.
My personal inclination, and I think that for most Christians is to consider that we are totally right with God.
But that’s not what the Bible says.
Even Paul, the great teacher and missionary saw in himself the right desire to do what God commanded but at the same time the inability to do so.
He wrote:
In his book The Imitation of Christ, Thomas A’Kempis writes:
“HE WHO follows Me, walks not in darkness,” says the Lord.1 By these words of Christ we are advised to imitate His life and habits, if we wish to be truly enlightened and free from all blindness of heart.
Let our chief effort, therefore, be to study the life of Jesus Christ.
Where can we find wisdom?
Listen to these words from Proverbs 2
These are true words for us to learn and understand.
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