Are You Inherently Wise?
Proverbs 24:7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
How lies the fundamental direction of your discernment today Christian? Is it well with you and with God, or does it lack the quintessential elements of truth and understanding? May we strive to be able to truly say, "not so!". We lack nothing in good discernment for we are graced with the wisdom of God, and He has bowed the heavens to deliver it unto us by His hand!
Wisdom is unattainable to the fool, while he is a fool. It is in his nature that the problem lies. A fool may even be born again, in that, he has made one wise decision by the enlightening of the Holy Spirit for his need for Christ; however, to one who has seared himself from the holy things of God, the holy things of God have no clarity to him. Overtime they will become as one who has forgotten they were once purged from their sin. A scorner is one who purposely rebels against the things of God, and the fool is one to whom it has become as a nature to live in error. Though they hear, they cannot bring themselves to comprehend. Though they see the truth displayed in the lives of Christians, they cannot bear to live it themselves, even though it would better them. They are without a desire for wisdom; and the comprehension to find the wisdom in the well-explained proverb, though it be taught plainly, is dormant. The fool's way is to him better than any other way, even while his life is in a course of decline. He may receive instruction, and while he can repeat the matter back to others, he himself will not heed it. The nature of wisdom lies on a shelf much higher than the reach of a fool. The fool opens not his mouth in the gate. He has nothing constructive to offer in the place where high councils may meet. If the gate be the entrance of a city, then we may conclude that a fool has not the ability to start a practice or relationship with wisdom. For he opens not his mouth to seek God to begin in wisdom. In this, the fool sets up his life for constant folly.
But to the wise man, there is a different course that grace has paved in his midst. If the spirit of wisdom rests upon a believer as it did with Solomon and the apostles, then we can attain to this necessity of life even now! Solomon asked of God and wisdom was distributed to him with the personal caring touch of the Father! Does God care any less for you? Certainly not! So we may expect the same! The apostle James boldly proclaims that if any man be without wisdom, let he himself ask of the Father! Christian reader, it will be with great liberality that God shall pour out His spirit of wisdom upon you fresh and anew! May this thought bring jubilation to the soul, for this is not the decree of a man but the promise of the One who holds the universe in His palm! God shall not withhold wisdom from His children who seek wisdom earnestly, and He never tires of our asking for it. Do we seek monetary gain? Do we not search for bargains and deals as well as earthly knowledge? Then how much more should we seek wisdom in whose return is much better than that of gold? How precious it is to enter every situation endowed with the mindset of God. Let this mind be in you which also was in Christ Jesus! As we ask of the Father for this wonderful grace, He shall lift our souls to the attainable places of wisdom so that we may reach that which was once incomprehensible. When we hand God control of our life, He transforms our thinking from that of foolish in nature to wise in nature!
