Get pure wisdom!
Proverbs 4:7–9 (NKJV)
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding. Exalt her, and she will promote you; she will bring you honour, when you embrace her. She will place on your head an ornament of grace; a crown of glory she will deliver to you."
Here proverbs encourages us to "get wisdom"! Again, the question is where we get it from? There is no shortage of apparent wisdom being made available in the life we daily live. Everyone and their brother seems to think they have "pure truth and knowledge"; from evolution to humanism there is no shortage of "stores to get some".
The problem is that all wisdom outside of God's is not pure wisdom – a lot of the other wisdom that is available is not evil but simply not as good for you as God's.
Colossians 2 actually gives us a strong warning about shopping for wisdom to form your philosophies by, outside of God. Listen to the opening of the verse from three different translations, all of them initially warning with words like beware:
Colossians 2:8 (NIV)
See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy
Colossians 2:8 (NKJV)
Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit
Colossians 2:8 (KJV)
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit
So a wrong philosophy (wisdom given you to love and form your belief and value systems according to) has the potential to take you captive, cheat and spoil you! Be careful where you go shopping, Champion.
Also, you need to keep your philosophy pure. A world that does not love or acknowledge our God is ever wanting you to make a cocktail concerning the wisdom you are loving. For example, they offer cocktails that take a bit of humanism, a bit of paganism, add a shot of Christianity, and then give it a flashy name to make you want it. It may be a funky-looking concoction but it wont taste good to your life – in fact it's poison to your soul.
Keep it pure, Champion. Let God now be the brickyard for the wisdom blocks you need to build that new life you have been promised. Not all the wisdom that is available in the world outside of God is evil – a lot of it is just not as good as God's – so why get it from somewhere inferior when you have the opportunity and invitation to get what is genuine from the One who makes the real thing.
I know this sounds somewhat narrow-minded but let's face it – it has to be so. There is to much "wisdom mixing" going on within Christianity today, and it's time for us to look again to the word of God and say, "This alone contains the wisdom I need for each and every situation I may face".
Get Gods wisdom!
Andy
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