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Through skillful and godly wisdom a house, (a life, a home, a family) is built, and by understanding it is established on a sound and good foundation,

Proverbs 24 v 3

The foundation of the lives of believers is the Rock – Jesus. Jesus imparts understanding to us. On such a strong foundation, we need to build a worthy super structure- a superb structure. The Almighty gives us wisdom and the Holy Spirit gives us the word of knowledge. These three spiritual dimensions- understanding, wisdom and knowledge are needed to build our lives, our homes, our families. It is not worldly knowledge that helps us success and yet people welcome worldly knowledge and resist godly wisdom and thereby, condemn themselves to live on the edge of the precipice of folly and wanton wickedness. But godly wisdom, Christ-like understanding and Holy Spirit-inspired knowledge makes us sharp and double-edged like the sword of God. By it we can succeed in this world and succeed in eternity.

We need to fill the rooms or compartments of our lives not with treasures of this world but with the treasures of understanding, wisdom and knowledge of the Lord. When we do so, we will be able to confront any problem, any challenge for we know that He that is in us is greater than he that is in the world. We will be able to overcome in all of our struggles. Just as there are social skills or soft skills, there are spiritual skills that a human needs to be effective, productive and powerful. This is the reason, the uni-verse above speaks of skilful wisdom. Bezalel, in the old covenant, was given these skills to adorn the physical Tabernacle where God , Jehovah dwelt. Now, each of us is called to be a Bezalel, one overshadowed by the Holy Spirit and endowed with subtle skills, supernatural abilities to make our lives, our bodies and minds- a living tabernacle of the Lord.


Solomon took seven years to build the Temple of God while we are working 24 x 7 x X days and years to build the living Temple of which Jesus is the cornerstone, the sure foundation. The temple of Solomon was destroyed by the Romans in far less time than it was built while the living temple cannot be destroyed for we are filled with the insurmountable resurrection power of Jesus. Our sacrifice is a broken and humble spirit that always remembers what we are in the natural. We need to furnish our lives with treasures of understanding, wisdom and knowledge of the Lord. The Word is the plumb line to build our lives.