if you want wisdom from GOD, you admit your
need and then ask, ask HIM for wisdom.
pray to GOD. talk to HIM. james 1.5 (tniv), if any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask GOD…
how do you get wisdom? by listening to oprah? by reading cosmopolitan magazine? by listening to rush? by taking smart pills? by going to school 90 hours a week? the bible says you get wisdom by asking
GOD. that’s where wisdom comes from –
GOD. so you talk to HIM about it and you
ask for wisdom. proverbs 2.6 (tev), it is the LORD who gives wisdom; from HIM
come knowledge and understanding.
if GOD was to come to you and say, “I’m going to
give you one wish. you can ask for
anything in the whole world. you can
have one wish.” what would that wish be?
there was a guy in the old testament that GOD came
to and asked him that question. GOD came
to solomon and HE said, “you’re the king of israel and I’m going to grant you
one wish. what do you want more than
anything else in life?”
solomon thought about it and said, “i’m so inadequate
as a leader. i don’t know what to do
with these people. more than any thing
else i want wisdom. i want to be able to
think the way YOU think, to see things from YOUr point of view, be able to make
decisions the way YOU would make them. i
don’t want to make mistakes. i don’t
want to have any regret when i look back on my life. i want wisdom.”
and the bible said that pleased GOD and HE granted
it to him, just like HE gives to us when we ask for it. HE then said, “solomon, because you asked for
wisdom, I’m going to give you the other three: wealth, fame, a long life.” solomon not only became the wisest man but
the wealthiest man, a famous person, and he lived a long life.
if GOD came to you with the same question, what
would you ask for? would you ask for
wisdom? proverbs says, if you don’t get anything else, get wisdom. that is how important it is to GOD and the
reason we don’t have it is because we don’t ask for it.
just a thought from the front porch…
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