WISDOM IS SIMPLY BEING LED BY THE SPIRIT

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. – Rom 8:14).

A man in the US once bought over 300 acres of useless, barren land “in the middle of nowhere”. People felt he was foolish and wasteful. But 15 years later, the state notified him that a proposed freeway in that area was going to pass right through his property. The state had to buy off the land from him at over 100 times the original price! (That’s a profit of over 9,900%, NOT 100%).

When a local journalist marvelled at his investment acumen, he simply pointed to heaven and said, “My Father was the one who told me to buy the land”.

Dr. Paul Osteen, (brother to the famous Joel Osteen), tells the story of how he once diagnosed a 1-month old baby in Kenya of prolapse, a regular condition cured by simple pills. However, by 2a.m. that night he woke up wide-awake, thinking of that baby.

Having no peace with his diagnoses, he left his job and spent HOURS that day poring through every article, textbook and journal he could find on "prolapse" until he found a little paragraph in an old textbook that said, “in extremely rare cases, prolapse can be confused with a serious blockage of the intestines that requires immediate surgery”.

When he read that, without any additional tests, he opened up the baby and found the boy's  intestines already black and twisted with gangrene. Any more delay, and the child would have been dead for good.

We have dwelled much on the importance of wisdom in living a successful life, but what is this “wisdom” anyway?

Wisdom is simply being led by the Holy Spirit.

This demystifying of wisdom is vital. Many Believers have this idea of “wisdom” as some nebulous, mysterious and weird knowledge of things. Truth is, you don’t even have to be ‘wise’ (in the traditional sense of the word), to walk in divine wisdom. All you need to do is to be led by the Spirit. 

Solomon is the man most often associated with wisdom. But in his famous request to God, what he asked for was “a hearing (KJV “understanding”) heart”. That is what the world then qualified as 'wisdom'!

If we, like Solomon, develop a "hearing" ear: constantly tuned in to the voice of the Spirit, we’ll make decisions (financial, marital, ministerial, etc.) that will ultimately be so profoundly apt, that people will marvel at our unusual  'wisdom'.

This kind of wisdom is characterized by humility and gratitude, not pride and conceitedness, (Jas 3:15-17).

AMEN.

More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.

GREG ELKAN