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The Needs of Wisdom

December 15, 2011

Pr. 19:20

Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.

All throughout this chapter is a call to hear, listen carefully to, and apply the wisdom that God wishes to speak to us. Now on the surface this sounds like good advice – and it is good advice. However – its SUCH good advice…we could have a tendency to write it off as common knowledge – kind of an “of COURSE I should do that” attitude.

And the problem with that…is that WISDOM doesn’t just appear out of nowhere. Before we can ever be listening to and applying wisdom in our lives, we need to have already done the work of positioning ourselves to be NEAR wisdom.

To be where Wisdom is.

Our growth in wisdom needs to be thought through and intentional. Am I surrounding myself with people who love Jesus? Am I posturing my heart in such a way that when these people are speaking to me…I’m listening? I’m seeking out wisdom?

Am I testing what I am hearing against scripture?

Am I praying that Jesus would continually shape and mold my heart?

Or…

Am I being selective as to the voices I’m listening to?

Am I only paying attention to people I agree with?

Am I not open to challenge?

Am I not really listening?

Wisdom has needs, if it is ever truly going to be applied in our hearts….and my prayer is that I would always be a man who postures myself towards wisdom, and that Gods voice, spoken to me in all the ways He chooses, would be the loudest and clearest voice I listen to.

Jesus, let it be.

B.

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