"Wise people are wise because they know what to do, foolish people are foolish because there wisdom deceives." Proverbs 14:8
Focus on: Wisdom promotes your focus
Wisdom is one of the key virtues that everyone needs and wants. Wisdom is very important and promotes where you put your focus. Your spiritual house needs to be built on the right area, the right things. Proverbs 14:1 says "Wisdom builds a house but foolishness brings it down" When we make wise decisions, we gain knowledge, a bit like a game. If you do the right thing, you get a point. Wisdom prevents us from the way of death. "There is a way that seems right to someone but leads to the way of death" - Proverbs 14:12
Wisdom gives us knowledge and helps us do things carefully. You may ask: "Why does Isaiah say that the wise' knowledge will be brought down?" (Isaiah 29:14)
This is what Isaiah meant:
People who are self-confident and think they know more than God, will be destroyed. Because wisdom comes from God. Everybody is being fed knowledge by God once you are humble. "A [self-confident] fool has no delight in understanding but only in revealing his personal opinions and himself" - Proverbs 18:2 Amplified. Knowledge and Wisdom come from God's. Which means if we think we know more than the creator, King and Omega, the person who made us, God let's us go astray. Sometimes it's best for people to find out themselves. The book of Proverbs has a lot about wisdom: Chapters 13,14,15,16
So: Promote Wisdom!
Scripture Reference:
Proverbs 14:8
Proverbs 14:12
Proverbs 14:1
Proverbs 18:2 Amplified Bible
Isaiah 29:14
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