Where are the wise?

Who is wise among you? When you need advice about something who are you asking?

Normally, we do what is the easiest. We ask our closest friends and sometimes whoever is with us at the moment and time that we do need wisdom.

Most of the time, what is easiest isn't the most effective and it's the same way with wisdom. Our friends may be able to fill us with advice that makes us feel important and builds us up but God gives wisdom that will leave us feeling valuable and worth it.

The feeling of importance is a good one to have, but value is what you should want.

It's important for us to get rest, but valuable for our health.

 Or think of it like an engagement ring. The box it comes in is important. You need that box to protect it so you don't loose it. Now think about the ring itself. The ring is valuable. That is where you find value.

We can feel important from what people say on the outside but only God has the power to fill you with value on the inside.

One of the things that makes it difficult is this...say you have a friend who received some words of wisdom from God and then shared that with you. I know that I feel like God gives me wise things to say/write all of the time.

I believe that when you seek wisdom, you'll be better at distinguishing where it comes from. When I am seeking wisdom from God and seek advice from friends or some of my closest friends give me advice I will be better at distinguishing the advice they are giving me.

Most of the time you can tell if the advice you are given is wordy or Godly. Sometimes it's obvious and that is the best. For example, when I need some advice from Rachel and ask her, I know that what she is saying to me is Godly because of where her heart is at.

"But come on, all of you, try again!
I will not find a wise man among you."  (Job 17:10)

Job's three friends had a reputation for being wise, but Job couldn't find wisdom in any of them. The three men assumed that they were wise because they were prosperous and successful. Job told his friends that they were wrong because they thought that their wisdom came from prosperity.

The truly wise man knows that wisdom comes from God alone, not from human successes or failures.

When we are wise, we know whether or not we are receiving earthly wisdom or Godly. Seek God first, and that will lead to you becoming more wise everyday.

That is where it starts. Seek God and you will find the wise and maybe even become the wise, but never more wise than God.