As we wrap up our week of wisdom, we have to ask ourselves where our wisdom comes from. Of course God, right? We just spent a week talking about that, but what drives us to follow what God is telling us to do?
Read Proverbs 11:2 and journal your thoughts
Our wisdom simply comes from our humility. Duh, right? I mean this is a basic church answer; it is when we humble ourselves before God that we become wise. But this is where the difference between wisdom and knowledge comes into play. Wisdom comes when we live out humility. When we humble ourselves before God and acknowledge that we don’t know it all, and then actually live out the things He tells us to do.
Not only are we humbling ourselves before God, but also each other. Whenever you are in a conversation, are you the person who is always talking or do you take the time to really listen to others? Sometimes God is trying to tell us something through the wisdom of other people. There is a rabbinic paraphrase that goes along with today’s verse that may shed help us understand what is being said here; "Lowly souls become full of wisdom as the low place becomes full of water." When we humble ourselves and begin to listen to others we begin to see everyone as someone God may be using to speak to us.
Today pray that you would have the wisdom to know when to simply listen to God and to what God is trying to tell you through others.
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