“Wisdom is knowing what to do and say in any given situation.”
Sounds simple enough, but when actually put into practice, this concept is revolutionary. Can you imagine what life could be like where no matter what problem arises, no matter what someone does to you, no matter what situation you may find yourself in, you can know with the sharpest clarity and absolute certainty exactly what to do and say?
That would take all the guesswork out of life, all the sleepless nights trying to figure things out, all the senseless worrying. What’s more, it would totally free our minds up to think in ways we never thought possible. We could think so much higher than ourselves because we’d no longer be thinking of ourselves.
Walking in wisdom has monumental payoffs:
24 There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:
25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they lay up their food in the summer;
26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks;
27 The locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands;
28 The lizard you can seize with your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces. –Proverbs 30:24-28 AMP
We see from the above scriptures that wisdom causes us to walk in abundance, favor, order, and influence.
Even if you’re on the very bottom of the totem pole, as small as ant, you can live in abundance and always have more than enough in every season.
Even if you are not strong, God’s favor can make you at home in the most inhospitable of places. God can make a place for you that’s all your own and further will use it to shield and protect you from all of life’s storms.
Even if you don’t have a supervisor breathing down your neck, you will operate in divine order, always on
task and never dilly-dallying.
Even if you are in a very vulnerable position and easy to catch, nobody will be able to pluck you up from your place of prominence. Your influence can take you all the way to the top in style!
God doesn’t want any of His children to live a defeated life. He has made this heavenly wisdom available to us, and it all starts with having a personal relationship with Him: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding” (Proverbs 9:10 KJV).
Fear of the Lord drives out fear of everything else. When we make decisions with God in mind, taking into consideration what He has to say about it, you can believe our decisions will be dripping with wisdom and truth.
You won’t have to waste time making wrong turns or running into dead-ends; His wisdom will be your ultimate path-finder. We don’t have to understand everything; we just have to trust Him. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths” (Proverbs 3:5-6).
