There are differences between knowledge, understanding, and wisdom: Knowledge is information, understanding is comprehension, and wisdom is application.
It is possible to be knowledgeable about something, to comprehend it, and not apply it. You can be a professor of a particular subject matter by information. Many people agree with the word of God with their heads instead of their hearts. Wisdom only takes effect from the heart, unto God opens your heart to receive His word, you’ll have mere information.
What is wisdom?
Wisdom is to know the right thing to do from the word of God and to do it. It’s to know the right place to go and to go there. It is applied knowledge.
Foolishness has no respect for age or title. You can be a professor of academics and still be a fool. That explains why a supposed respected professor would sleep with a student who is the same age as his daughter. Wisdom can only be gotten from God through the application of His word.
Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock. – Matthew 7:24
The wisdom of God is the principal thing (Prov. 4:7). We cannot be successful in any area of life without walking in the wisdom of God.
The wisdom of God is the principle of life. I don’t care who you are; you can never succeed in life without principles. Walking in biblical principles is the only guarantee to triumphant living. For instance, the principle of marriage in Ephesians chapter five will save any marriage from divorce, as no marriage will ever work if the husband does not love the wife and the wife does not submit to the husband.
Why do we need wisdom?
We need wisdom because wisdom is the stability of our time (Isaiah 33:8). In this era of uncertainties, only those who are wise will be able to escape the effects of the hard times. There could be a global meltdown or an economic crisis. Only the wise will survive. As believers, we are meant to operate in the kingdom economy which the holocaust cannot reach.
We need wisdom because it is profitable to direct. Wisdom is an all-time requirement for direction. Every leader needs wisdom to be successful in carrying out their responsibilities. The husband needs God’s wisdom to successfully run his family affairs. The government needs God’s wisdom to successfully run national affairs. Pastors need God’s wisdom to successfully run the church’s affairs. Wisdom reduces wasted energy, time, and effort employed to get things done (it helps to get things done cheaply).
How can we get wisdom?
1. By placing a demand for it on the prayer altar. We get divine wisdom by asking. King Solomon went to Gibeon to offer sacrifice to the Lord, and the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “Ask me whatever you desire,” Solomon asked for wisdom, and the Lord gave him not only wisdom but also riches and honors (see 1 King.3). In James chapter 1 verses 5–6,
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him; but let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.” “He that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.”
2. By committing to reading the Bible and, books, and listening to tapes of anointed men of God, We can get wisdom by committing ourselves to studies. The Bible should not be read like a newspaper; we should have our pen and notebook beside us, noting the facts that speak to our issues and concerns.
The books that we buy should contain materials that topically address our most pressing life concerns. If our most pressing need is freedom from financial hardship, we can busy ourselves with materials that address the issue. Why waste your life reading materials that are not needed?
Pro tip: engage in prayer and fasting while you are in the adventure of studying; light will dawn from heaven and show you the way out of your challenge.
Paul told his ministry son, Timothy, to study to show himself approved (2 Timothy 2:15).
Until your light gains divine approval, you may never get out of your present challenges.
Daniel said he understood by books (Daniel 9:2) and It was Jesus’ custom to read during His earthly ministry, and Daniel understood by the book (Like 4:16). You see, you have no excuse not to commit yourself to studies. The Bible is a solution book. It offers multipurpose solutions to all problems in life. You can use it to restore your marriage or turn the shape of your business.
Final Thoughts
Wisdom is applied knowledge. It is knowing the right thing to do from the word of God and doing it. We need wisdom because:
- It’s the stability of our time.
- It’s profitable to direct.
- It’s the principal thing.
We can get wisdom by:
- Asking from God.
- Through a commitment to studying and applying the word of God.
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18 responses to “The Power of Wisdom”
It is so important to ask God for wisdom, read the Word of God with Holy Spirit’s help, listen and obey what he tells us to do.
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Well said. I appreciate your valuable input. God bless your heart ❤️
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You are welcome! ❤️
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How does the concept of ‘faith’ play out among Jews?
The Xtian definition of faith completely different from how the Torah & Talmud defines this abstract term. Faith has nothing whatsoever to do with personal belief in some Creed or theology. The Talmud calls this kind of faith — avoda zarah.
Israel did not go out of Egyptian slavery to worship some God in a tent. Rather, Israel came out of Egypt, accepted the Torah as the future Constitution of the Jewish state; Jews can only observe Torah commandments while living within the lands of Israel. This Torah Constitution mandates the obligation applicable only unto bnai brit people, (((The idea to proselytize some “Good News” … another Torah abomination.))), to rule the oath sworn lands with righteous common law lateral Sanhedrin-like courtrooms.
Herein establishes the Prime purpose and intent of Torah faith, which Moshe described as the choice between Life or Death. Rule the land through righteous lateral common law courts of justice — Life. Or — dwell in foreign lands and assimilate/make inter-marriages. All together cease cultivation of the cultures, customs, manners, and ways of the Jewish people … and the brit destiny of Abraham all together dies as part of the vitality of life within all those assimilated Jews who choose to worship avoda zarah. Assimilation of huge swath percentages of exiled Jewry, Jews living in foreign lands as refugee populations, the prophet Moshe envisioned DEATH as the consequence.
What causes Goyim to turn, (((something like the quality of a solitary grasshopper turning into a locust swarm))), into mass antisemitic Race hating lynch mobs? The 2nd Commandment of Sinai, violation of the second commandment, the root First Cause of antisemitism. Jews who assimilate, they embrace foreign cultures, customs, and practices or traditions. The Torah of Moshe views such decisions & actions as the Av tuma behavior known to the Torah and prophets as avoda zarah. Assimilation to the mannerisms and peculiar ways practiced by foreign people who reject the revelation of the Torah @ Sinai, these alien customs — there what separates one type of persons/society from other types of persons/society. The Torah & prophets abhors assimilation as the 1st Face of avoda zarah.
Avoda zarah releases the tumah spirits of death. These tumah death spirits enter the soul of Mankind, something like that of wind which passes through an open window of a house. These tumah death spirits, they turn arouse spirits of insanity – Goyim suddenly behave as a pack of Jew hating antisemites. Order in such societies infected with tumah spirits of death, those societies turn away from dignity, respect, and civility — unto anger, chaos, and anarchy.
Jews as stateless refugee populations, struggling to survive in foreign hostile lands, such Jewish populations – stripped of all spiritual defences – even when they do Torah commandments, they receive no merit for observing these Torah commandments. The Torah and Talmud refer to the loss of this ‘wisdom’ – how to do Torah commandments, even halachot לשמה, as the ultimate definition of Torah curses. Comparable to the floods in the days of Noach which destroyed all Mankind.
Observance of Torah commandments and Talmudic halachot לשמה, limited strictly and only to ruling the oath sworn lands through righteous lateral common law Sanhedrin courtrooms. This wisdom negates the tumah spirits of avoda zara, and negates the curse of antisemitism mass insanity. Mitzvot and halachot observance stands upon the precedent of the Sanhedrin lateral common law courtrooms. These courts only have jurisdiction within the borders of the oath sworn lands. To establish this type of courtroom Jews must first conquer and rule the oath sworn lands.
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Thank you for your reply. I appreciate your input. God bless your heart🙏
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Thanks Chris. What does the urge to worship avoda zarah compare? The church notion of Man bowing down to some silly idol … what a totally absurd oversimplification. The urge for tits and ass hedonism a far clearer understanding of avoda zara fertility gods. The stupidity that God pursues a virgin birth from married or engaged women compares to the current acts of Arab terrorism in Samaria Israel and the attempts made by the UN and ICC to negate the 1967 Six Day War.
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Sorry, We do not understand your comment. What is avoda zarah? We would appreciate comments that are related to the post. God bless you🙏
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Avoda zarah means strange worship.
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Thank you for the explanation.
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Avoda zarah, literally translated as “strange worship”. But a much more precise interpretation of the k’vanna of these 2 words: assimilation to foreign customs, manners, ways, even popular styles practiced by Goyim who do not and never have accepted the revelation of the Torah @ Sinai.
What translation perverts the 2nd commandment of Sinai — not to worship other Gods — idolatry. This false translation, immensely popular and common among Goyim biblical translations. All of these translations of the T’NaCH, every one of them violate the 1st opening commandment of Sinai. Both the Bible and Koran translate the Name, from which derives the metaphor “Holy Spirit”.
Aaron translated the Name, this term described by the metaphor Holy Spirit/רוח הקודש, The Name blew His Spirit into clay and transformed that clay into Man/Adam. Spirit NOT word!
This violation of translating Spirit into words goes by the name “Golden Calf”. The tumah revelation/definition of avoda zarah unto all generations. Aaron, the elder brother of Moshe, translated the Spirit Name which no word can pronounce, from the Name revealed in the 1st Sinai commandment unto אלהים — translated as Gods plural.
The Gospels of John opens with: In the beginning was the one who is called the Word. The Word was with God and was truly God. This error precisely duplicated the avoda zarah of Aaron – known as the golden calf.
All Biblical translations and the Koran and all its translations translate the Spirit Name unto words. They therefore violate the 2nd Sinai Commandment not to worship other Gods. Known as avoda zarah: strange worship.
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Thank you for the explanation.
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Apparently, the Word of God isn’t as clearly stated as modern readers need. Jesus said to welcome the stranger and help the needy, the opposite of the position taken by racists on the religious right that I’ve met out here in Las Vegas. We also have to allow for the fact that there are other sources of wisdom. Jesus was a rabbi, a teacher, and the tradition is that rabbis are scholars, not limited just to the Torah or Old Testament. Anti-intellectualism isn’t consistent with what Jesus was or said.
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Vic. We are not against intellectualism but we value divine wisdom more than natural man’s wisdom. God bless you🙏
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The difficulty with differentiating intellectual and divine wisdom is that, if you believe, both stem from the same source. What we learn from science is based on tools provided by God. It is in fact quite possible to reconcile the two types of wisdom, especially if we are honest about the limits placed on authors of the ancient texts. They could only write what they could understand and what their readers could understand.
Separately, Gandhi said it well, to paraphrase, I like your Jesus, a good man, but not your Christians who are so unlike him. An American author phrased it slightly differently but with the same intent. “I love God but not his fan clubs.” There is still much to learn and those who think they know everything pose a danger to themselves and others.
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We agreed that God is the one that gives us the capacity to do science. Just the way anything can be abused if don’t k ow its purpose. Sometimes we abuse the privilege of scientific knowledge by doing things contrary to God’s will. For example, Abortion.
We also agree that some Christians do not behave as Christ. It is difficult to differentiate them from unbelievers. However, some believers still follow Christ in truth and indeed. We believe if we claim to love God, we should also love His image/our neighbor. Whether sinners or righteous, Christ loves us all. Of course, there is always more room to learn.
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Learn Hebrew stop relying on translations. Translations compare to Fake News.
A simple example: בראשית the 1st word of the Torah … ראש בית, ברית אש, ב’ ראשית These words within words constitutes a thing called רמז. Your translations which translate “In the Beginning” totally ignores the opening רמז contained in the opening first word of the Torah.
Next: stop talking about God this or God that. Monotheism directly violates the 2nd Sinai commandment. Torah faith contains no commandment to believe in God. Israel did not experience the 10 plagues, the splitting of the Sea of Reeds, and the revelation of the Torah based upon theology and/or creeds telling the people what they should/must believe. Brit/ברית means alliance\Republic, the translation “covenant” totally wrong. Why? Because to cut an alliance between partners requires swearing a Torah oath. To swear a Torah oath requires knowledge of the Name of השם, a Name which has no pronunciation due to it being Spirit and NOT a word. Simple logic: the Creator of the Universe — a verb and not a noun. All the Xtian and Muslim translations of the Name of השם, treat this name as a noun rather than a verb. This blatant stupidity violates the 1st Sinai commandment.
The 1st Sinai commandment defines the Talmudic משל — “hanging a mountain by a hair”. All the rest of the 612 Torah commandments hand from this “string” — the 1st Sinai commandment. Because all the bible and Koran translations translate the Name of השם into other words, this editorial decision made by the translators exactly duplicates the error of Aaron who translated the Name of השם unto the word אלהים. The Torah codified this tremendous error: known throughout time as: the Sin of the Golden Calf.
The biblical translators would have fanatic believers “believe” that the ancient Israelites, who witnessed the 10 plagues of Egypt, the splitting of the Sea of Reeds, and the revelation of the Torah at Sinai … that these liberated slaves from crushing oppression “believed” a Golden Calf “theology”.
The New Testament founders: Jesus and Paul, neither man understood the fundamental distinction between Torah common law from Roman statute law. This error served as the יסוד of the Church denial of the Oral Torah logic system format which compares commandments, learned as precedents, through logical comparison to other commandments, or compound learning, with other commandments — the definition of Torah common law.
The Church fathers lacked the Oral Torah revelation of logic at Horev, the exact duplication of Aaron’s avoda zara error. This Golden Calf error forced the church fathers to turn to ancient Greek philosophy; whose philosophers developed a completely different and totally alien logic system format.
Israel came out of Egyptian bondage to conquer the land of Canaan and rule that Republic of allied Tribes with righteous lateral Sanhedrin style court room common law justice. Herein defines the concept of faith from the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. The Sanhedrin courts have no jurisdiction outside of the borders of the brit Republic of allied “States”.
The Talmud teaches that Jews living outside of the conquered lands of Canaan, that they cannot keep, observe, and obey Torah commandments abroad, based upon the legal precedent that the Sanhedrin courts have a limited jurisdiction, restricted to the times when brit Israel rules the oath sworn lands as an independent nation state. The Sanhedrin Courts they serve to interpret the intent of the Torah Constitution of the Republic of Tribes.
The religion known as Judaism established by the Rambam and other g’lut/rabbis in exile\ who lived in foreign lands abroad during the Middle Ages. Their halachic codifications changed Torah common law unto Roman statute law. This error, another Golden Calf, caused a domino effect. In Hebrew known as: ירידות הדורות. A directed violation of the Torah negative commandment which forbids assimilation to the cultures, customs, manners, and ways practiced by Goyim societies who never accepted the revelation of the Torah at Sinai.
All commentaries made upon the Great Halachic codes, following the Rambam Civil War, they all learn by Roman statute law rather than Jewish/משנה תורה\common law. This recent Jewish religion, known today as Judaism, directly compares to the theology/creed belief systems which defines both Xtianity and Islam today. Hence many people refer to all three religious’ belief systems in God as the Great Faiths of Monotheism.
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Trying to read a chapter in Proverbs corresponding to the day of the month has been life transforming for me. There’s so much wisdom in that book that I can benefit reading it for a lifetime.
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I agree with you. The book of proverbs is rich with loads of wisdom. Thank you for sharing your experience with me. God bless🙏
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