Tuesday, May 27, 2014

What does true wisdom look like? Do? 1 Kings 1-4

1 Kings 3:28 (NASBStr)
When all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had handed down, they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.

Solomon was made king over Israel when he was around 12-14 years of age (there is no exact age given, but Jewish historians put it at about this age).  He was confronted by God shortly after his annointing and given the opportunity to ask anything he wanted to ask of God.   He asked for Wisdom.  God, of course, was elated with this request and gave him wisdom in abundance.    In the above verse we see the result of his first recorded act of using that wisdom.   Two women came to him and made similar claims to be the mother of the same new born infant.   One was lying and had actually killed their own child, rolling over it at night.   God gave wisdom to Solomon in such a manner that he was able to discern that the real mother of the child would not want any harm done to the child, while the mother was had actually been the cause of her own child's death would be so bitter she would not be concerned with the death of the child.  That is what wisdom does ... it gives you insight others might miss.  He was able to see the pain in both mother's eyes, but for different reasons.   He took a sword to cut the baby in half and that brought strong emotions from each.   From that point on it was easy to find the real mother.   As a result of this first act of wisdom, Solomon was able to demonstrate beyond his years the wisdom God gave him.   Wisdom, when asked of God to enable the life, is no respecter of peoples, age, or gender.   God gives wisdom and when we use it in faith to glorify Him the above verse takes place.   True wisdom will get noticed.  Jesus is the supreme example of this as He talks about the accusations of the Pharisees about His ministry.  Note the following: 

Luke 7:35 (NASBStr)
Yet wisdom is vindicated by all her children.

Wisdom gives birth.   Wisdom will always produce positive fruit.  It is never sterile.    James says that wisdom from above (true wisdom that comes from God) looks like this:

James 3:17
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.

You will know that the wisdom you have from Christ is truly from Christ if it produces pure, peaceable, gentle, reasonable decisions that are full of mercy and the fruits of the Spirit and doesn't have hypocrisy.   True wisdom is extraordinary and  has very fruitful results.   

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