The Role of Wisdom and Understanding

UV 978/10,000 Role of Wisdom and Understanding The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. Proverbs 3 v 19 Scripture teaches us that the Lord founded the earth and the universe and beyond using the principles of wisdom while science teaches us that it all came about by the sheer accident or chance of evolution. Scientific and circumstantial evidence however substantiates scripture that it all came about not by chance but by deliberate design of a Creator. Some scientists have written about the holographic universe in which there is the same hologram or stamp of structure in each atom and cell as in the entire universe. In each uni-verse, I am attempting to unearth the underlying principles of wisdom hidden in each verse that constitute the foundation of the universe. The application of these universal principles leads to understanding. Mankind by and large have stayed away from wisdom and knowledge and contented ourselves to operate primarily in the more visible domains of knowledge alone. When we follow the principles of wisdom and understanding, our lives are on a rock foundation or else our lives rest on the randomness of chance and changing circumstances. The foundation whether of a tree or of a building is hidden below the ground. Hence, it takes much digging to fully uncover it. The application of the principles of wisdom to our daily lives is understanding. This constitutes the more visible superstructure of a tree as of a building. Wisdom is the strong taproot from which grows the stem, the offshoots, the branches, the leaves, flowers and fruits of life. The Lord once revealed that when we dig a hole for the foundation of a building, it does not look good. In fact, it looks cavernous and ugly. But, once the building is completed, it looks beautiful. Similarly, it is wisdom that gives us a firm footing, a strong foundation. If we are easily shaken by events around us, then our foundation is not strong. If we are easily moved, convinced and persuaded by people or swayed by emotions, our foundation is not secure. If we do not have faith in an unchanging God and His Son and our Saviour Jesus who was present with Him at the foundation of the earth and the heavens, we do not have a solid foundation. Faith gives rise to wisdom and wisdom leads to understanding. We need to found our lives on wisdom and build or establish our lives with understanding. Even in technology, there is a combination of the seen and the unseen, for example we have electric cables and the unseen energy runs through, we have internet modums and the invisible communications of images and words runs through it. Our faith has an invisible part- our inner lives and a visible, palpable and audible part- the good deeds, good words and good relationships. Wisdom is knowing the underlying invisible principles of the universe while understanding is using those principles in visible ways to build. Our lives to be complete must have a combination of the visible and the invisible. Prateep V Philip Power phrases: The Lord by wisdom, founded the earth, by understanding established