Wisdom For the New Year

Wisdom For the New Year



THE END IS NEAR!! As we come to the close of 2009 the millennium gains momentum and what was future fantasy is now familiar fact. On this, the last day of the year, let us reflect and remember our need of wisdom.

Widom is defined as “the right use of knowledge” The Bible says, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding” (Proverbs 4:7). If you want a happy new year, “Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding” (Proverbs 3:13).

A word of caution, there is the wisdom of the world and then there is the wisdom of God. James 3:13-16 tells us that the wisdom of this world is full of hatred and hypocrisy.

Contrariwise, “But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy” (James 3:17).

God’s wisdom is guilt-free, rewarding and is God’s way of bringing us step by step through every phase of our life. God’s wisdom will help us in every age and stage of our life. This is the wisdom that we need and would do well to seek.

1. The wisdom of God is better than the MIND of man.

Read 1Corinthians 1:20- 30 and 2:4-5 God is the only one who can get us out of the social, economic and spiritual problems that plague us.

Gods wisdom is better than all the world’s philosophies and th eonly answer to lifes questions.

Christ is wisdom, (I Corinthians 1:30, Colossians 2:3) therefore: “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom…”



2. The wisdom of God is better than the MIGHT of man.

The prophet said to the king, “…Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts” (Zechariah 4:6). Man’s wisdom without God is not only lousy, it’s lethal! The Bible says, “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ” (Colossians 2:8). Man’s reasoning is “mental candy” that creates mental cavities.

The Bible teaches: “Wisdom is better than weapons of war…” (Ecclesiastes 9:18). “He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: He is a buckler to them that walk uprightly” (Proverbs 2:7).

3. The wisdom of God is MINE and YOURS for the asking.

Wisdom is a gift. “For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding” (Proverbs 2:6). The best example of this is given in the life of young Solomon. (II Chronicles 1:7-10 & I Kings 4: 29,30).

Have you listeend and learned from the lessons of life this past year? Do you not want the wisdom of God to guide you in the next with this knowledge in tow?

Then join me in claiming: “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him” (James 1:5). God bless you in the new year as you think on these things and keep the SON in your eyes!