Real wisdom and knowledge

{Daily Selah}

The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew (Proverbs 3:19-20).


Few things bother me more than  someone trying to puff  themselves up while attempting to make someone else feel foolish. We've all met at least one. The "Know-it-all." You know, the person who has an answer for everything and has a tendency to finish your sentences. That person may some things, but they don't know everything, even if they want you to think they do. Neither do the rest of us. 

If the "Know-it-all" bothers us, imagine how God feels when mere human beings He created think they know better than He does. 

We've all been guilty of it,  with every act of disobedience. Our flesh wants its own way and decides its way is best. 

A humble heart acknowledges that any understanding, knowledge or wisdom we have is really not our own. It was given to us by God. He created us and gave us the ability to perceive and know. 

God mentions wisdom over 220 times in His Word. Knowledge is in there 169 times and understanding 156 times. Obviously, these are important concept to our God. 

What kind of wisdom, knowledge and understanding does God want us to have? Not the wisdom of men. Not a limited knowledge, nor human understanding. He wants us to have the wisdom, knowledge and understanding that only comes from knowing Him and His Word and being enlightened by the Holy Spirit. 

No matter how much we've studied and learned, compared to God, you and I know very little about anything. We don't have the wisdom, power and understanding God does. By comparison, we know less than an ant. 

The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew (Proverbs 3:19-20).

God's ways, wisdom and knowledge are high above ours. But, just as He wants to share His love with us, He wants us to know some of what He knows.  

Look at the way Paul prayed for his fellow believers...

Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints... (Ephesians 1:15-18). 

God doesn't care how many letters we have behind our names. Education is a good thing, but He wants us to have something of far greater value. He wants us to have "the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him," and to have an enlightened understanding to be able to know His power and love working on our behalf through the Lord Jesus Christ.  Simply put, He wants us to know truth. 


The only way to really know truth is through a relationship with God through His Son by the power of the Holy Spirit. 

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time (1 Timothy 2:3-6). 

Do you know that Christ died for you? Do you know that He rose again the third day, just as He said He would? Do you know that He loves you and wants you to "come unto the knowledge of the truth"?

And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life (1 John 5:20).

God wants us to continue to grow in our knowledge and understanding of Him. How do we do that? By studying His Word and listening to Him as He reveals Himself and His wisdom, knowledge and understanding to us through it.  

* Know God. Know His Word.  That's real wisdom and knowledge.

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Daily Selah} is a mini-devotional, a pause to ponder about the Lord and how He wants us to live.