Tag: wisdom

WORSHIP

“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Psalm 90:12

We adjust our perspective on the time and times of life according to which portion we are in. From a whole life ahead of us to winding down. It affects how we live in those times. Being care-free gives way to being overwhelmed with responsibilities. Adventure and risk surrender to attention to every motion of our body so one does not pull or strain something. We go from ‘break a leg’ to ‘don’t break a hip.’ We have a logbook of all our days lived but as time and times progress the count reverses. The growth of how old transposes to the grappling of how long is left. So, what do we do? How do we Worship God with our time? Realize, acknowledge, and live in the knowledge that HE holds all time, including ours. Live in what we have; TODAY. Wisdom says to take account of what has been done and let that refine what is left to be an act of Worship unto the God who holds all time and times in His hand. Worship, Waste, or Worry?

WISDOM

“Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.” Proverbs 18:1

My, My! The Holy Spirit is a wonderful writer. The language of the Bible is something that the surface level reader will dismiss or pass over without diving into the depths. What we miss can be monumental. Let us look into this Wisdom. I suggest that we examine the bookends of this verse. “Through desire.” I submit that there must be a want to in order to gain Wisdom. This is the outset. In the back half of the verse we see that he “seeketh and intermeddleth.” I get seeketh. A man is looking for something in order to find. But what about intermeddleth? If we break it down… inter: That prefix means to jump in the middle of, as in, interfere, interpose, interrupt, Meddleth would have meddle as its root word. Meddling is digging around to find all the dirt, the info, the 411, facts, the tea. In other words, a man looks to get in the middle of everything there is to know about Wisdom and the matters that require Wisdom. Whatever a man is in the middle of trying to solve or figure out Wisdom is what he seeks. “Eth” means constant. A constant diligent consuming search for Wisdom. Now, how does he do that? The middle part of the sentence tells us; “having separated himself.” Free from distraction, detraction, outside interaction, putting space in his place in order to have clarity and concentration. THAT is the plague of today that hinders Wisdom; distraction. I should not have to point out the primary culprit. You are holding it in your hand right now reading this post. We have to be Wise enough to know the difference between information, opinion, influence and True Wisdom. Sit with Wisdom and let her lead. Wise or foolish?