DAY FIVE | Waking in Wisdom

May 5, 2009

WELCOME TO DAY FIVE | WALKING IN WISDOM

1 Kings 4 ; 29 – And God gave Solomon wisdom and exceeding great understanding, and largeness of heart like the sand on the seashore.”

The Bible speaks continually of three levels of knowledge, which must be acquired.

KNOWLEDGE // is the acquisition of information, facts and revelation.
UNDERSTANDING // is the assimilation of knowledge until you understand it as a life principle
WISDOM // is the acting upon knowledge understood, so that you live by your life principles

Therefore wisdom is the end result of the journey of knowledge into your life.

Wisdom and understanding are intrinsically linked together. When we ask God for wisdom He responds by giving us an understanding heart.

Some people ask for wisdom from God expecting a hand to write answers on the wall. This is not the way God works.

Wisdom is acting upon the things you know and understand. When God gave Solomon wisdom He linked it to exceeding great understanding; which manifest itself in Solomon’s thirst for knowledge.

Dumb people are foolish people.

However educated people are not immediately wise people.

It is knowledge understood, in terms of life and Godliness, which leads to a life of wisdom.

The Bible refers to the wisdom of the elderly, showing that wisdom is measurable in one’s actions over time, not in one’s information base.

Seek to put into practice one life principle that you truly understand.

Keep doing it until it becomes wisdom in your walk.

Once you accomplish this, move on to the next principle you wish to inculcate into your walk of wisdom.

Soon people will be calling you a wise person.

PRACTICAL

1. Write a list of the books you have read in the last 12 months.

2. Categorize the books so that you can clearly see which ones are for education and which for entertainment.

3. Now write down the life principles that you have as convictions within. This means you are firmly committed to live by these principles.

4. Do not write down what you have been taught – but what you have imbibed as foundational principles which govern your life.

5. Now write these principles down in one sentence each. No more than ten principles.