As you may know, I wrote a blog on wisdom in January 2021. Recently, I re-read Proverbs 16:16, where God’s Word tells us that wisdom is more important than getting gold. Therefore, I want to provide some additional information on the topic of wisdom.
First, what is the difference between knowledge and wisdom? Some of my family members have a license to carry a firearm. Knowledge is how to use the firearm. And wisdom is when to use it and when to keep it holstered.
Wisdom can help us in our personal life and in our business life. This month, I will give you one example how wisdom helped me in my personal life. And next month, I will give an example how wisdom helped me in my business life.
Personal life
I wrote a book titled Created For Greatness, Living Your Best Life Through God’s Word.
After completing my research, I vividly remember trying to write my first chapter on Finding Lasting Happiness/Joy.
Before I started to write, I prayed for wisdom on what to say, how to say it, and in what order. But I still drew a blank. To say that I was discouraged would be an understatement.
Then I remembered a verse that my wise mentor told me about. Romans 8:26 says,
“Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words”
Therefore, before I went to bed, I asked the Holy Spirit to intercede for me with God. The Holy Spirit knew exactly what help I needed to write this first chapter and knew how to ask for it from God.
When I woke up the next morning, I had clarity of thought. And ideas started popping into my head one after another. I thought to myself that The Holy Spirit must have spent a long night with God!
Application
As our children were growing up, I told them that when they read, listened to, or watched something meaningful, they should ask themselves three questions:
1. What is the point?
2. What are the benefits? and
3. How can I apply the point to my life?
So when you read each chapter in the book of Proverbs that was written so that we may have wisdom (Proverbs 1:1,2), you can ask yourself these three questions.
Also, you can read one Proverb each day and ask yourself what is the one thing that I learned that will help me obtain and apply God’s wisdom to my daily living?