While to search out a matter is the glory of kings (Proverbs 25:2), we all too often can fall prey to our own wisdom in doing so. Our own habits ingrained in us from years of practice.
The problem oftentimes in my own life, I think, is that I’ve followed my own wisdom, or depended on it, rather than seeking God’s wisdom, really finding it, and holding on to it, putting it into practice.
God’s wisdom actually covers all of life. When we ask God for it, he will give it, but we have to be open to receiving it. We have to look for it, and then we’ll begin to catch glimpses of it, or see it. And what ends up being just as important: we’ll need to begin to put it into practice. Over and over again. Which also means we’ll have to set aside our own way of doing things, our own way of solving the problem, our own wisdom.
This indeed will involve a new orientation of life, but it is part and parcel of the way of wisdom for us. It is found in Jesus who is the way, as well as wisdom to us. A wisdom we pursue in our lives, and together with others in Jesus in the way of Jesus for the world.
Ted M. Gossard
