This is where true wisdom lives. Bending my knee in awe at the mouth of an empty tomb.
This is where it was born.
This is where true wisdom thrives. Jumping up in praise, to radiate joy from the manifestation of overflowing love, the Lord’s living heart beating in mine.
This is where it will multiple.
Wisdom discerns when mourning is good and when sorrow is beautiful.
Wisdom discerns what sacrifices are necessary and good.
Wisdom discerns what hard-to-swallow acts are gifts nonetheless.
Wisdom discerns who is most worthy of worship.
Wisdom discerns how to balance requests and thanksgivings.
Wisdom discerns what it means for each person to honor God from the heart with our own gifting, through our own personality.
Wisdom discerns the presence of true treasures and true worth.
Wisdom discerns where true priorities should be placed and held.
Wisdom discerns where true allegiance lies.
Wisdom discerns where our true position is in relation to Christ’s greatness…and His goodness.
Yes, I am behind in my regular postings. Urgent and unexpected surgery threw off a number of regular things in life this month.
Yes, it is June and not December. Yet, when I think of wisdom, I automatically think of the Magi and their response to the birth of Jesus Christ.
Yes, we are not sure there were exactly three Magi and the famous song “We Three Kings” written to remember their roles is not to be as revered as Scripture. Still, there is beauty and truth there, in the verses of that hymn.
When I think of the concept of wisdom, a very important synonym for me is discernment. Looking back on the nativity accounts and the words of “We Three Kings” leads me to recall some simple truths about discernment for those of us who want to embrace God’s way.
Thus, I will allow those truths to inspire four pieces of word art, to be created and posted each day through the rest of this week, to round out this month’s spotlight on wisdom.
Please return to view them. And I pray even now each will bless you. 💜
Two men separated by thousands of years. One was a priest, the other a king.
Both possessed some degree of worldly wealth. But each has been better known both in his own time and in our minds today for the wealth of his wisdom.
Yet, for all the wisdom they possessed and passed on, neither was perfect.
They were all too human.
The first, before he heard of another way, was a worshiper of false, dead gods in the religious sense. And the second, though he knew from infancy of another way, became a worshiper of other types of false, dead gods — the gods of plenty and pleasure.
And yet…the records of their words and ideas still speak truth to us today. Why is this so?
Because what is really good and true always and only comes from God. And what is really wise and prudent always and only comes from God.
So whether we speak of Jethro of ancient Midian, King Solomon of Israel, or any other wise person who has lived since, we would do well to heed a two-sided fundamental reminder.
We should never elevate the speaker of the wisdom to esteem them as much as the Giver of the wisdom. And we should never forget that the Giver of all wisdom sees the potential for redemption of and communication through every human He has ever made.