Wisdom and Humility

On top of the wall Wisdom cries out, at the city gate she makes her speech: "How long will you who are simple love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery
and fools hate knowledge?" (Proverbs 1:21, 22 NIV)

Wisdom is a great paradox. The more you attempt to gain knowledge, the wiser you are, however knowledge is not wisdom. And th wiser you believe yourself to be, the less wise you actually are. Both Psalms and Proverbs extol wisdom and encourage us to gain as much as we can, but to be truly wise, we can never know if we have succeeded. How's that for confusing? How's that for making wisdom even more elusive?

Wisdom and humility must go hand in hand. we must be humble enough to know that no matter how much knowledge we gain, there is always still an infinite amount of things to learn. And we must be wise enough to know that all of our knowledge is useless if we do not apply it with humility and wisdom.

A wise peron without humility is known as a "smart _ _ _," and we know they are not well thought of! A humble person without wisdom is often seen as weak and ineffective.they are easily influenced by others... For good or bad.

So let us pursue wisdom. It will be a life long pursuit, for if we are truly wise, we will be humble enough to believe we are not yet wise and must continue the pursuit.

Father,
All the very best things you have to offer us seem to confound our minds. Help us to be truly wise and truly humble. Amen.

Joys: expectation of a sunny day for hiking; time with Daniel, Tracy and Cecelia; planning a family vacation