In the study of any and all scripture, the attainment is to be unto acquiring “Godly wisdom”. With the attainment of a new piece of equipment, the first step is to study the manual to become wise unto how to operate the instrument.
We are challenged to study all scripture, so as to be made wise unto what we are to be and do that is approved of God. God’s Word is to become our own personal wisdom by which we live.
In the study of the Book of Proverbs, we learn that Godly wisdom is what is needed to correctly establish one’s moral constitution, conscience and compass. To personally hearken to God’s Word will afford us good moral instincts, that one must possess to avoid falling into Satan’s steel traps.
The Book of Hebrews challenges us to leave the principles of the doctrine of Christ and go on unto perfection. Just being saved isn’t enough; we are to live Godly lives. Hebrews stresses the excellence of the New Testament Covenant, through the pre-eminence of Christ as our High Priest, to save to the uttermost and to make one perfect in every good work to do God’s will. Those who have sold out their lives to Christ’s Church, in full interaction with the Body, will acquire the sufficiency of Godly wisdom to effectually work in harmony with the church, with the full measure of love and joy.
The Book of James emphasizes living by and doing the Lord’s work by the wisdom that is from above. This book not only recommends wisdom, but also supplies it. It gives us many of the solutions to our Christian experience, and unfolds answers for successful relations and blameless personal conduct. It projects that faith is made perfect through submission and the practice of Christian virtues.
James emphatically affirms that wisdom works where wisdom is being received. It challenges all who profess to be right with God to “shew out of a good conversation (way of life) his works with meekness of wisdom.” It indicts those who have bitter envying and strife in their hearts, as those who are not disciples of heavenly wisdom, but rather students of the wisdom that is earthly, sensual, devilish. It contends that wherever there is the wisdom from above, that it transforms character and conduct unto a fashion that is consistent with Godly behavior.
What man calls incompatibility, God calls the fruits of carnal wisdom. Where man offers excuses instead of compliance, God calls it a “dead faith”. We are responsible to judge ourselves and deal with our problems according to Godly wisdom. We are to seek the mind of Christ that wrote God’s precepts and strive to attain to the objects that the spirit of the law conveys. ARE YOU WISE?
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