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Finding Biblical Wisdom



Question: How do I get Biblical wisdom?

Short Answer: Biblical wisdom begins with fear of the Lord. 

 

What the Bible Says

  • Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name (Psalm 86:6).
  • The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding (Proverbs 9:10).

The psalmist seems to be saying that the reason he wants to understand the scriptures is for the purpose of keeping God’s laws. To fully observe what God has asked him to do. He is not seeking to memorize a daily verse or to check daily reading off his to-do list.

These verses are essentially laying out a roadmap for Biblical wisdom: 

Learning the way of the Lord leads to walking in the way of the Lord which leads to fearing the name of the Lord which leads to Biblical wisdom.


What do you do with this?

It’s much easier to map out a plan than to follow it. We can read the Bible from cover-to-cover hundreds of times, but unless we choose to apply what we learn to our daily lives (i.e. walk in the way of the Lord), we don’t develop the fear of the Lord that’s required for Biblical wisdom.

An underlying question here is why we don’t always understand what “walking in the way of the Lord” means for us personally. Let’s consider that one reason God is not giving you understanding is because He knows that your heart is not prepared to fully follow Him. If we look back to Exodus, God chose not to lead the Israelites on the shortest path out of Egypt because they were not ready for the battle that they would encounter. In His instructions to Moses, God says, “The people will change their minds and return to Egypt if they face war” (Exodus 13:17). In other words, if He’d given his people full knowledge and understanding, they would have run away. God’s intention is for us to draw near to him (James 4:8), not for us return to our personal Egypt as he tries to lead us out.

So, how do we start? With prayer. We learn to ask him to search our hearts, try us, and lead us (Psalm 139: 23-24). We learn to wait on the Lord when we feel like His way is too much (Isaiah 40:31). And we learn to understand that He will finish what He started in us (Philippians 1:6).

If you truly want to gain Biblical wisdom, you have to give up your own way and learn to follow Him.


 

 

 


 

 

 


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