*Text: James 3: 13*
“If you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom”
There is a wisdom from above and there is a wisdom that is of this world. The wisdom from above is godly wisdom and one of the things it does is that it gives you an understanding of God’s way. Knowing the way of God will help you to be able to please Him more simply by aligning yourself with His way and walking in it.
The wisdom of the world is rooted in selfishness. It is the kind of wisdom that will tend to deceive you into thinking that you can reason things out for yourself, you don’t need God. It is the wisdom that leads you away from the path of godliness and leads you down the path of compromise, and while you are going down that path, you actually believe that you are doing the will of God. Worldly wisdom therefore will make a man wander far away from the will of God, down the path of destruction and death (Prov. 14: 12)
Unlike worldly wisdom, godly wisdom motivates those who have it to live an honorable life, a life of total obedience to God, a life that is committed to doing good works, a life of humility. Godly wisdom helps you to know that you have no reason not to be humble, because you know that you owe to God all that you have and it is only by remaining in God that you sustain and maintain them.
We are in a world today where many people are beginning to believe that doing good is not always right, because there are occasions when doing good attracts punishment and not reward. There are many who have reported tales of woe regarding the good they did that only fetched them trouble instead of reward. Today, unlike the Good Samaritan who found a man that was attacked by robbers on the road and left for dead, and proceeded to take care of the man and nursed him back to good health, many today who find themselves in the same situation that the Good Samaritan found himself, leaves the injured person to his fate and will make no attempt to help simply because they are afraid that if they go ahead to help, the police may hold them responsible for the man’s plight. Many have died for this reason. In the peak of the COVID 19 crisis, many people died because they were sick and hospitals refused to admit them and treat them for fear that the sickness could be COVID 19 related and they don’t want to be infected.
Godly wisdom teaches us however that there is no justification to abandon people in their time of crisis and refuse to help them. Godly wisdom teaches that doing good works is not negotiable, because while doing good works does not on its own qualify us for heaven, it draws us closer to God and inspires us to want to live right before Him.
God will grant us grace to turn away totally from worldly wisdom and turn to godly wisdom. God will help us to live for Him, thereby showcasing His wisdom to the world. Shalom.
Prayer Points
1. Father thank you for enriching my life with your wisdom from above, thereby giving me a better understanding of your ways
2. Father, I reject worldly wisdom, I ask that every trace of worldly wisdom in me should die now in Jesus name.
3. Father please help me to grow daily I godly wisdom, so that I can continue to live the type of life that brings honor to your name
4. Father, please help me to be forever committed to doing good regardless of situations that may be unfavorable to such efforts in Jesus name.
5. Father please grant me grace to live for you, thereby showcasing your wisdom to the world.
with God hand in hand, we get everything, acting according to his word and doing good, we are guaranteed success, we must ask God for wisdom to act every day with grace, humility, and solidarity with others.