Real Wisdom

          I recall taking a test in school every year that would tell you what level you were as compared to the rest of the kids in school.  I guess it also gave results that you had learned something during the past 9 months of school.  My math and reading scores were always very good but my grammar scores were around the average level.  I had no love for English Grammar.  It made a little more sense once I started learning Greek and later on, Spanish but while in grade school and high school it was hard for me even to the point of trying to get extra help from Flo Hollett, a very old school teacher/farmer.  My overall scores were good and above normal, but you know, it had nothing to do with my "wisdom."   I'm sure that if one could measure wisdom, my numbers would be below average.  First Corinthians 1:20-24 says, " Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?  For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.  For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:  But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;  But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God."  
      There are hundreds, if not thousands, of people who think they are experts and have the wisdom needed to be important enough for others to listen to them when they voice their opinions of virtually everything imaginable.  A person might be a good actor or actress but that doesn't mean that they know anything about life and its problems.  i wouldn't want Dr. Kildare doing any surgery on me nor would I ever want Tom Cruise piloting a plane in which I was a passenger.  God's Word tells us about wisdom and where it come from.  The people that lived during the time of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Apostle Paul certainly had the same problems that we have today especially in the area of wisdom.  Paul sums it up by stating that the answer was in the preaching of the Lord Jesus Christ and His crucifixion.   The world of unbelievers just doesn't understand and so the result is their leaning to their own wisdom and rejecting everything that God says.  James 1:5 reminds us, " 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."  If you want real wisdom then the only source is God.  Praise God today for the wisdom that He gives to those who come to Him.