Wisdom

I was brought back into this world of blogging by request. This person who called upon me, a blogging competitor and an old acquaintance of mine asked me to dabble back into this world of words and against my better judgement I obliged. What could it hurt right?? lol. Oh, and this person will have to remain unnamed, for the simple fact that if I direct you to their blog, my words of "Knowledge" will know longer do you any service. Call me selfish if you'd like.

Now to the question.

If you could change one thing, what would it be?

If I could change one thing.... I thought about this for a number of minutes, and many seemingly tangible thoughts came running into my head. I would change my car, the amount of money in my wallet, change the house I live in, stuff like that. But what good does that do anyone anyways. Material possessions never truly satisfy us, because enough is never really enough.

After a bit of reflection I feel led to talk about a story I learned in church as a young lad. Its found in 1 Kings 3, and it has to do with the biblical character Solomon. Ill save you all the verse by verse breakdown and tell you what stands out to me.  Solomon, son of King David, had married the Pharaoh king of Egypt's daughter was burning offerings to the Lord.  The Lord then appeared to Solomon and asked him "What shall I give you"?  This right here really trips me out, because God, (God of everything), says to a basic human being 'ask me for anything and you got it.' Wow, just wow. Let me continue, Solomon in response, and in more words than this asks God for Wisdom.

'Wisdom'. The ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting; insight.

I recall over the years getting certain compliments, mostly from elderly people like my Nana who would say something along the lines of, "Shane-o, you are wise beyond your years." I would say thanks Nan' and keep it moving, never realizing what a compliment that truly is. When did being wise become so boring. They say ignorance is bliss, but wisdom is knowledge, and knowledge is truly power. (which I guess makes "Good Knowledge" power, just saying)

So for me, for my change, ill throw away what I think I know and ill take that wisdom stuff. Not the whole I'm going to sit in a big red chair by the fire and read books and tell everyone they're wrong wisdom. I want the ability to know what is true and right and lasting, that sounds good to me.

In case you were wondering here's how it turned out.....

¹⁰ It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this. ¹¹ And God said to him, “Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right, ¹² behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you. ¹³ I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days. ¹⁴ And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

Nice work Solomon, nice work.

Until next time, use Good Knowledge.... and pray for Wisdom.

Joy

Learn to find Joy in all things....

"Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds" -James 1:2

What has been given cannot be taken away, praise God for that.

Thats all, feel free to crack a smile or two. Cheers.