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James 1:5a
“…far more than the accumulation…”
James 1:5a, If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God,
What is wisdom? It is not just knowledge. Wisdom is far more than the accumulation of information and intellectual understanding. Today, man has a vast accumulation of knowledge. Man has learned to travel faster than sound but yet he displays his lack of wisdom by going faster and faster in the wrong direction. Man may have accumulated a huge store of information about the world but he shows his lack of wisdom by failing to live any better in the world.
Wisdom is rooted in the fear of God — Job 28:12, “But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof….God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven.” Job went on to conclude, “Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.”
The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom — Psalm 111:10, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.”
To reject God is not wise but foolish — Proverbs 1:7, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools depise wisdom and instruction.” Psalm 14:1, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.”
Dear children, we are wise if we know God, believe in Him and have a reverential fear for Him. We are wise when we obey His commands and walk in His ways. To do otherwise is not only unwise but foolish. Someone once said, “If you fear the Lord, you fear nothing else, but if you do not fear the Lord, you fear everything else.”
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