Spiritual Wisdom

UV 3703/10000. Spiritual Wisdom Those who are spiritually wise will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead many to righteousness, will shine like the stars forever and ever. Daniel 12 v 3 Scripture makes a distinction between those who are money wise, worldly wise, other wise and the spiritually wise. The other types of wisdom are decried by scripture as the foolishness of man, trying to be too clever. It is not that we should not be prudent, careful, cautious, tactful as worldly wisdom advocates but that we should always value spiritual wisdom much more and much higher. This is the wisdom that is promised in James 1 verse 5: “ If any of you lacks wisdom to guide him through a decision or circumstance, he is to ask of our benevolent God who gives to everyone generously and without rebuke or blame, and it will be given to him. “ The implication of this generous promise of God is that even those who are well up in other forms of wisdom are deficient or ignorant of spiritual wisdom. Spiritual wisdom is gifted by the Spirit of God or the Holy Spirit. He as counsellor promises to counsel us at every stage of every decision we make. Jesus as Wonderful Counsellor causes wonders to happen in our lives once we obtain wisdom from the Spirit of God. Yesterday, I met a young UN diplomat from another faith who said the promise in James 1 v 5 spoke to him personally and powerfully. Yes, the word says, “anyone” and not just the followers of Jesus. Anyone who is humble enough to recognize that he is not spiritually wise and is willing to ask the Lord, the Lord God is ever eager to give wisdom generously. There is a limit to human wisdom but there is no limit to the wisdom of God which is infinite. Spiritual wisdom will enable us to give the glory and credit of every success of ours to the Lord and the grace to endure any failure or trial equally with a good attitude of learning the lessons from what caused the failure. Spiritual wisdom will enable us neither to gloat nor to bloat when we prosper and are doing well. It will enable us to consider others better at various things compared to us. Spiritual wisdom will enable us to lean and learn continually on the Lord and His word and not to lean on our own limited understanding. It is spiritual wisdom that enables us to think about what is good, noble, beautiful, praiseworthy, helpful not harmful, wholesome, holistic, positive.