Cynics look high and low for wisdom—and never find it; the open-minded find it right on their doorstep! (Proverbs 14:6 The Message)
Finding Wisdom
I stared in bewildered wonder at the dashboard of the unfamiliar car. I had discovered that there actually IS a CD-player, but I could not figure out how to eject a CD. I was doomed to listening to Clearance Clearwater Revival until the car died, apparently.
But then I opened the owner’s manual. And suddenly it all made sense.
No mare CCR!
The world is a lot like me. They see a world full of mystery, unknown things, and unclear relationships. And like me, they search, and examine, and theorize. And sometimes, of course, they get it right!
But we have a quick route to wisdom. We have a secure way to find truth. We have a reliable source of knowledge, application, and wisdom.
Wisdom is actually pretty simple. Although we often find it hard.
Wisdom is listening to God. Wisdom is not found by hard work, study, experimentation, examination, hypothesis, synthesis, or guessing. Wisdom is found by asking, “What does God say?”
And we get to do that all the time!
We are peculiar, we know how to find wisdom.