Investment in Godly Wisdom and Understanding

[hldude33]

“Investment in Godly Wisdom and Understanding”
James 3:13 NIV
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.

I think we would all be very quick to say that we desire to have understanding and wisdom. We all want to know things and become wiser in all that we do. We want to learn more so that we can further our understanding for different things we continue to do in life. We spend so much of our lives continuing to learn different things so that we can fill our minds with more knowledge to be more successful.

With all the learning that we do, I often think the best wisdom we can obtain goes untouched in so many ways from God’s Word. We say we want to grow in Him and that we want to learn humility, but the ways we live our lives really says something totally different all too often.

What are we investing in these days? Where are we putting our time and focus? This is something I have been thinking a lot about, especially with so many changes that have happened over this year. I’m trying to continuously challenge my priorities and where I am putting most of my focus. It’s a daily challenge as it is for us all.

This week, I’d like to ask all of us to seriously consider where we are investing our time? Do we really seek Godly wisdom and understanding? Do we really want to learn what is means to be humble? Are we serious about this learning? We often say we are, but what we are doing daily to be challenged and to learn more about Godly wisdom that will bring more understanding and more humility?

I’m not at all against the different investments we make in our lives for us and our families. We definitely need to invest in different ways, but I have to wonder where we are focusing most of our investing? Are we investing more in material things or in Godly wisdom? I know I am not investing as I should each day.

What do you think others are seeing in your life? Are they seeing you invest in the wisdom from God or from the world? Do they see you investing in understanding His Word more? Are they seeing you become more humble? I think we all need to take a serious look at how we are investing our daily lives and then ask God to give us His wisdom and glean as much as we can even more from His Word like we’ve never done before.

Our greatest investment is gaining Godly wisdom so that we can be more understanding and learn to be more humble.

 

[Nancy]

“Investment in Godly Wisdom and Understanding”
James 3:13 NIV
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.

I think we would all be very quick to say that we desire to have understanding and wisdom. We all want to know things and become wiser in all that we do. We want to learn more so that we can further our understanding for different things we continue to do in life. We spend so much of our lives continuing to learn different things so that we can fill our minds with more knowledge to be more successful.

With all the learning that we do, I often think the best wisdom we can obtain goes untouched in so many ways from God’s Word. We say we want to grow in Him and that we want to learn humility, but the ways we live our lives really says something totally different all too often.

What are we investing in these days? Where are we putting our time and focus? This is something I have been thinking a lot about, especially with so many changes that have happened over this year. I’m trying to continuously challenge my priorities and where I am putting most of my focus. It’s a daily challenge as it is for us all.

This week, I’d like to ask all of us to seriously consider where we are investing our time? Do we really seek Godly wisdom and understanding? Do we really want to learn what is means to be humble? Are we serious about this learning? We often say we are, but what we are doing daily to be challenged and to learn more about Godly wisdom that will bring more understanding and more humility?

I’m not at all against the different investments we make in our lives for us and our families. We definitely need to invest in different ways, but I have to wonder where we are focusing most of our investing? Are we investing more in material things or in Godly wisdom? I know I am not investing as I should each day.

What do you think others are seeing in your life? Are they seeing you invest in the wisdom from God or from the world? Do they see you investing in understanding His Word more? Are they seeing you become more humble? I think we all need to take a serious look at how we are investing our daily lives and then ask God to give us His wisdom and glean as much as we can even more from His Word like we’ve never done before.

Our greatest investment is gaining Godly wisdom so that we can be more understanding and learn to be more humble.

"Understanding" has been at the forefront of my mind and prayers for sometime now. He shows me a little at a time as, I can only ingest His Word in that way or I get lost! Haha.
The more humble we think we are...He will always show us that we are not.

"I’m trying to continuously challenge my priorities and where I am putting most of my focus. It’s a daily challenge as it is for us all."

I believe that is key to understanding (God's understanding)...focus and priorities! He tells us to look up and, we are so easily distracted that we miss the forest for the trees, so many looking at others, comparing one to another, judging, criticizing in their hearts. I am not above these things and, as you say hldude33, it is a daily struggle. But the more we win these battles, the more "norm" it becomes to put 2 Cor. 5 into practice.

2 Corinthians 10:5-
"casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,"

Yes, a daily struggle, nice post brother.

 

[Yan]

I think to learn a Christ wisdom is to learn to have super endurance of facing the wrath of enemy, many people are lack with their patience. Being alleged, bullyed, falsely accused, tormented, even crucified needs the most emptiest will of anger. Because satan has put us into an impossible measurement in the judgement, we yell in our mind are considered sin or accidentally saw something that passing by and it is forbiden by law becoming sin. It just like riding the angry bull and we need to be stick into the ride until the end, and satan can manipulate our flesh as a source of his poisoned words (James 3:5-9). Satan has put mankind to be condemned into hell, we doing the right thing we are condemned much less do wrong (Colossians 2:20-23). So, whosoever judge others with the heavy measurement of the law than they will be measured the same (Mark 4:24).
But Christ had been made those salvation for us all that no creatures could harm us and separated us from the love of God (Romans 8:35-39).