Learned Wisdom

 

    Wisdom is the unseen treasure of life.  It has value because it can make life easier to navigate.  It eliminates the back and forth questioning of your motives, thoughts, and actions.  It holds value because of how it is gotten.  Some people are just gifted with wisdom, but most of us have to find it or work for it.   If we pray for wisdom God will give it, but it is usually received through trials and events that widen your perspective on life.

    Job's wisdom came from faith and from being sifted by Satan.  Satan sought to destroy Job, but instead made things clear to Job.  The wisdom that Job received was powerful and well deserved.  His pain made it where he saw the world differently than he had before.  His innocence and naive optimism was gone.  What was left was a man that had real insight.

    Job's wisdom made the religious people nervous because it shook the foundation of how they viewed life and death.  His friends fought this with all they had because it would highlight how they were wrong.  No one wants their defects to be highlighted.  

    Only God can reveal the secrets of the universe.  People who have experienced grief and pain get a glimpse if they are looking.  Job understood that we would never find God on our own.  We need God to open up the opportunity and he does.  We just have to recognize it for what it is and not be too busy, prideful, or angry to accept His invitation.  

    Wisdom is the biggest secret of the universe.  Where does understanding dwell?  God is the source of it all.  How He works is a mystery.  We get a glimmer of understanding of it all through the Holy Spirit working within us.  To gain wisdom we have to shun evil and faithfully step into the unknown toward God.  Having a healthy fear of God is the beginning of wisdom that will lead to understanding that the treasures of the world are nice, but important.

Job 28