Wisdom & Understanding

Job 28----what a passage!!! Below are some verses from the chapter…WOW! We as humans as mortals we have no clue or idea where wisdom comes from---even death asks about it!! WOW…death!! Why would death want wisdom?? I’m glad death is functioning in stupidity!!   Imagine if it had wisdom??  Wisdom and understanding go hand in hand---sometimes I ask myself why believers who have known God for years don’t have understanding for the scriptures?? Or why some lack wisdom to know how to speak to the lost or to other believers?? Some who have known God for years don’t have wisdom to pray according to the needs. They don’t  understand why God wills certain things in lives or why He works or better yet how He works. Why?  The answer is here!! They don’t know where to find wisdom. Are they even seeking it? Only God knows about wisdom. It’s not a trait we can learn or achieve in school or through experience.  We love to feel very knowledgeable in different areas and even get upset when people don’t believe or trust our judgment but that’s not wisdom!! We know the Bible and can interpret the scriptures but is that wisdom??  We can read people but is that wisdom?? NONE OF THAT IS---Read Job 28 and analyze each word.  God tells the reader what wisdom is and how to achieve it.  I love this chapter---God has things He keeps to Himself and only lets those in on them who seek Him out and dig deep into His word---let’s be those people---let’s be people of wisdom!

There is a mine for silver

   and a place where gold is refined.

Iron is taken from the earth,

   and copper is smelted from ore….

But where can wisdom be found?

   Where does understanding dwell?

No mortal comprehends its worth;

   it cannot be found in the land of the living.

Where then does wisdom come from?

   Where does understanding dwell?

It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing,

   concealed even from the birds in the sky.

Destruction[b] and Death say,

   “Only a rumor of it has reached our ears.”

God understands the way to it

   and he alone knows where it dwells,

And he said to the human race,

   “The fear of the Lord—that is wisdom,

   and to shun evil is understanding.”