Doing the Right Thing Proverbs 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and in all your getting, get understanding. My favorite secular definition of wisdom is, “Doing the right thing without precedent.” That means you know what to do in a situation even though you’ve never experienced it before. In his book Knowing God, J. I. Packer offers a helpful illustration for understanding wisdom using the metaphor of a railroad or subway system. He said some people think of wisdom as if they’re sitting in the control room looking at a giant board on which the movement of all the trains is tracked. You can see everything that’s going on in the city’s rail system at one time; you have a total picture of everything. Some people think the wiser they become the greater grasp they will have of the mysteries of God—how everything in the universe works and how all the pieces fit together. But that is not what biblical wisdom is all about. I have found the opposite to be true. The more knowledge of God I get (that is, the wiser I become) the more I realize how much I don’t know, and will never know, about God and His ways. Jeremiah, David: Sanctuary : Finding Moments of Refuge in the Presence of God. Nashville, TN : Integrity Publishers, 2002, S. 201
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:08:47 +0000
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