WHERE DOES WISDOM COME FROM?

Today the blog will be based on Job, Chapter 28:20-28, which deals with the beginning of wisdom. Some say wisdom is hidden from the eyes of every living thing, concealed even from the birds of the air.  Destruction and Death say, "Only a rumor of it has  reached our ears."  Only God understands the way to wisdom!  He alone knows where it dwells, for he views the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.  And he said to man, "The fear of the Lord--that is wisdom and to shun evil is understanding."


Study: We must first look at Job and his friends and their different ideas of how people become wise.  Eliphaz' attitude toward wisdom and toward God is:  "I have personally observed how God works and have figured him out."  Bildad's attitude was based on knowledge from the past.  "Those who have gone before us figured God out and all we have to do is use that knowledge." Zophar thought himself wise and therefore wisdom belonged to him.  He believed, "The wise know what God is like, but there aren't many of us around."  Then there is Job who rightly believed, "God is the source of wisdom, and the first step toward wisdom is to fear God, by humbly trusting Him. God will then reveal His wisdom to you."


As a longer-living person than most, I know what it means to have "street smarts."  I don't always trust every single person on the street.  There is some good, I believe, in being wise in the ways of the world, so we are not suckered into every little thing offered to us, no matter how insulting.  We all need some understanding and make some boundaries so we are not hounded to death over some asinine "deal".  But wisdom?  That's another thing.  Wisdom is having the knowledge of right  vs wrong as God would want us to have. There is nothing as right as the righteousness of God and nothing as fine as His leading us to that rightness.


Understanding the  ways of God may take a while.  Reading the Word of God, praying, trusting in the Holy Spirit's guidance, listening to others who have received wisdom, sharing what you have learned about God with another, shunning evil...all these things and perhaps more will lead us all in the right path.  God wants us to be wise in Him in order to help others find Him and His righteousness.


So, hats off to Wisdom which comes from God!  Nothing like it in the world!


Let's do it!


Jo INMN