And lean not on your understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.
Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and depart from evil. It will be health to your flesh, and strength to your bones, ( Proverbs 3:7-8)
Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding; for her proceeds are better than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, and all the things you may desire cannot compared with her. Length of days is in her right hand, in her left hand riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, and happy are all who retain her, ( Proverbs 3:13-18).
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God, ( Revelation 2:7).
If we have any doubt as to whether obtaining the Wisdom of God in Christ Jesus is vital, ponder on this: The Lord by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding He established the heavens; by His knowledge the depths were broken up and clouds drop down the dew, ( Proverbs 3:19-20).
The earth and the heavens were founded upon the wisdom and understanding found and released from the Uncreated One. These attributes or character traits of the Holy One are within us today by the Holy Spirit…….
As stated in John 5 :19,by the Lord, Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son does in like manner…..
We will walk in peace and safety as the Word speaks to us, though trouble is around us……We must ask the Lord His will when we are coming and going and doing. In His Presence we receive what we are seeking for in His instruction or direction. Remember His scepter is pointing to His bride…. Waiting to display His love through His power to His beloved……
We must pursue Him and in pursuing Him, we receive the Words of Wisdom and Understanding and direction from His Spirit consistently. We are partaking from the Tree of Life as we walk in His way of depending on Him and Him alone…We lean not on our wisdom or understanding…..When we do lean on ourselves, our understanding and wisdom usually leads us into trouble…. not out of trouble. God’s Wisdom leads us into peace and safety in the midst of trouble and adversity.
We trust that He makes a way through His Wisdom, the Word by His Spirit…… Then we trust the Lord in obeying His instructions…… Sounds easy?……Well, patience plays out strongly in our obedience as we walk out His Wisdom by faith in His Spirit.
We believe He is there listening to our petitions, questions and dilemmas. As we approach His presence in the Word, our faith is listening to His way for us in the reading and studying the Word and by communion or prayer. Therefore, we live in His Wisdom as we do only as the Lord directs us by His Spirit.
Christ Jesus spoke in the Gospels along time ago, His Words still penetrate our hearts as as well and sort of swirl our mind around….. as we first try to understand. Then we mature as His words illuminate or burrow a way to greater understanding of God’s way….. His Words are alive as is Jesus Christ, the Word of God!!!!! Our Lord is our Wisdom and Our Understanding….. in Sanctification…. as the Word says in Corinthians.
The scripture sis written in 1 Corinthians 1:30-31, But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God – and righteousness and sanctification and redemption that as it is written, He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.
Many different ways does the Word say the same thing to us – keep our focus on the Lord- He is our Wisdom….. Let not His Words depart from our eyes and heart…… Why? The Spirit tells us….
My son, let them not depart from your eyes- keep sound wisdom and discretion; so they will be life to your soul and grace to your neck. Then you will walk safely in your way, and your foot will not stumble.
We must remember we live in a land where we have peace in the Lord, but there are snares and traps from evil all around us….. We must stay alert…. Staying alert in a patrol, we are properly equipped.
The Lord has equipped or provided us with all that pertains in keeping the watch of the Lord in holiness and godliness and purity in a corrupt world. The Equipment is His Holy Spirit dwelling within….
So if we are walking out our lives by faith which sometimes resembles a battlefield in a spiritual sense…. and we are not properly using what our Commander and Chief has provided…. foolish are we!
We have died with Christ….. We have died with Christ….. We have died in Christ…. So we have died, right? The fullness of God’s intent: we are in Christ as a new creation. There is no new creation if the old is alive!
Therefore, there is death to our reasoning, our control, our plans and ambitions….our nationalities, our traditions, our all is gone……We have to realize that the yucky part of our lives- our sins and iniquities are not the only part that is gone….. All of our inheritance that we have received from Adam is dead in the eyes of our Heavenly Father…. We are dead in Christ and made alive in and through His resurrection alone. From ground zero, we start out alive in Christ Jesus as babes growing into sons and daughters of the Most High God.
A scripture in Hebrews is outstanding for us to feast our eyes on the body of Christ: This is the Wisdom and the Understanding of the Holy One: For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren, ( Hebrews 2:11). ( We are all one in Him and because of Him!!!).
The Wisdom of God in His Redemption and the Righteousness and the Sanctification of our lives are only found in the Lord Jesus Christ….. We are not found alive any other place but in Him in eyes of our Heavenly Father….. The Heavenly goal or purpose of the children of God is Christ will be all and in all……In Adam, we are dead. In Christ Jesus, we are alive. They are the only two options we have in the eyes of the Godhead…… We must be diligent to live in the Wisdom and Understanding of the Holy One!
Do we reckin our selves dead? Or may be we reckon ourselves partially dead….. sort of, living the life of the living dead? In God’s view, there is only Christ Jesus…..The Almighty has approved and sealed the work of the cross by putting the Lord at His right hand of all power and might. We are dead in our sin if we do not partake of the Lord with a determined heart.
There was no half way with our Lord at the cross, nor can there be any half way with us….. Now we walk in the light as we have obtained His Light by obedience to the Spirit’s leading….A child will always grow in to adulthood…..but the child may remain in the adult in the natural as well in the spiritual and inner man…..This prayer is written on our hearts as we mutter our lips to heaven:
We pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation ( understanding) in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of our understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints… ( Ephesians 1:17-18).
We can not be neutral towards our death in Christ…..We have to be ruthless in bringing down all strongholds that allow the carnal or old man living outside the wisdom and understanding of God….. If we aren’t, we will decline……
The rewards of the Lord are so blessed, how can we stay away by holding on to the old ways that lead to death.
When we keep sound wisdom: when you lie down, you will not be afraid; Yes, you will lie down and your sleep will be sweet.
Do not be afraid of sudden terror, nor of trouble from the wicked when it comes; for the Lord will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being caught, ( Proverbs 3:24-26).
The only way we have the Lord as our confidence is when we say yes! I will trust you, Lord, in this or on this way and wait for the Lord to work it out…… We grow in trust as our experience of faith has played out. We lean and learn of His faithfulness in all areas that pertain to our lives.
Hear this, all peoples; give ear, all inhabitants of the world, both low and high, rich and poor together. My mouth shall speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart shall give understanding. I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will disclose my dark saying on the harp, ( Psalm 49:1-4).
The psalmist speaks further on as seeing through the eyes of Wisdom on those who go after the mammon of the day and neglect the offered Redemption of God…..
If we seek Wisdom as ours. We will weigh our decisions from the Tree of Life… We will continue to walk with our path illuminated by His Spirit. We will live in His Wisdom and see all things pertaining from the root of Wisdom…..Our lives will be in peace, our surroundings may not, but our hearts will live in peace….. The peace that only comes from God, the peace that passes all understanding.
If Wisdom and Understanding were not imperative for us to obtain and live by, there would be little mention of these characteristics of the Spirit of God…..but many Proverbs and the sayings of Jesus prove their importance.
They are given mightily throughout the Word showing us to lean on the Word of God with all our heart, all our ways and thoughts. Our old man’s way will consider the Wisdom of God foolish as written in 1 Corinthians 1:18-30: For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Jesus Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called.
But God has called the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence……
But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God- and righteousness and sanctification and redemption- that, as it is written, He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.
We grow in Jesus Christ and the wisdom and understanding of God become us….We have died to the old man.We are renewing our mind and then our actions to the ways of God, the ways of Wisdom……We are dead to the dead traditions and are alive to God as we manifest His word…Our traditions cannot manifest Him…..They are all for outside, the showy stuff…..They make us feel good but do nothing for our inner man…. or glorifying our God.
The Holy Spirit inhabits us in the inside first. In truth, the wisdom and understanding and the patience and longsuffering of God are rarely seen or understood by men…. They see these godly qualities as weakness but oh, the strength of God is shown and proved by His Wisdom! His characteristics are indwelling in us and is ours! We are His and He is ours.
Traditions of men make the Word of God no effect….. So, tradition may keep God in a box, but they also keep the people that believe them in their own box….. No cost, no gain…..No reward in Him……We live what we believe…. If the Lord is the Living Word in us and unto us…. We are His burning bush….His Word comes through to bring out His reign. The Lord is the Word of His power.
The Words which should stop our breath and get our knees knocking is written in the love letters of the Lord by the Holy Spirit to His body in the first couple of chapters of the Book of Revelation.
The wisdom and understanding of God has been made truly unto us through Jesus Christ, our attention would be making certain we are the partakers of the Philadelphia church….. We would be in fervent prayer for the Holy Spirit to work His work in us no matter the cost…..We live in seeking unity in the Spirit with one another……
We will resemble the temple of the Living God as written in Proverbs 24:3, Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Again, I emphasize the attributes of our Lord are not seen with the visible eye….. but they are seen by the Uncreated One….. He is watching His building……The Almighty told Moses to make His temple as the blueprint was established in heaven. Jesus Christ is our Blueprint of the temple of the Living God for us to absorb…. so to speak…. Isn’t that why we crave His presence, we absorb Him into us….
Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them. I will liken them to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came,and the winds blew and beat on the house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.
But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came and the winds blew and beat on the house, and it fell. And great was its fall, ( Matthew 7:26-27).
Ponder Proverbs 9. This proverb is written from Wisdom’s mouth to all who have ears to hear. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding, (Proverbs 9:10).
It is also written in Proverbs 29:18: Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but happy is he who keeps the law.
Let us follow godly counsel of the Word: Let us know, let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord. His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, like the latter and the former rain to the earth, ( Hosea 6:3).
The Word of God is established. The Word of God, Jesus Christ, the King of all kings and Lord of all lords, is sitting on the right hand of the Almighty…… Let us have vision of the greatness of our God and heed His warnings and keep turning to our Lord….. then receiving all Wisdom and Understanding of the Holy One…..
We live peace in the Spirit of God who is wisdom and understanding, counsel and might and of knowledge and fear of the Lord. The Spirit of the Lord is within. We do not have to travel far to allow the greatness of God to help us….. for He is closer than our breath and He hears us…. with an everlasting, never ending love.
We trust the Lord. His Wisdom contends against men’s lofty ideas. His Wisdom has proven over and over again by the children Wisdom bears….. Wisdom’s fruit is known by it’s taste of sweetness in victory and peace in the Lord.
Let us lean on the Lord and trust Him with all our might!
Selah!
My peace I AM gives you, not as the world gives. My Words are kept by those who love Me. I AM makes Myself known to those who have eyes which are sweetened with the love of their Savior.
I AM, the Word of God, is still speaking to every soul. Whispering My love call to each heart. Come and turn to Me, for I AM in your midst….. Come….Climb into My wounds of mercy. Find your peace and rest in My work. You have Refuge in My Cross. Lose your self and gain all in life…. Come, stay and live here for awhile and let I AM’s love wash away all. I Am makes all things new….. Come, learn of My love….. the way to your peace and rest.
Do not turn away from the very Cure for all your ailments, your anger, your fears, your pride….. Let the Everlasting Blood of I AM wash these away….Come rest at My feet and learn of I AM. The things you chase after to be perfect will not satisfy. Alas, your anger’s root, you are unsatisfied. Your hurt, your disappointments have risen for they have been not founded in Me….. I AM your Satisfaction and your All.
The wounds in My hands and feet are nothing in comparison to the joy of you with Me. You are My satisfaction of My Work at the Altar, the Cross. Come….. I AM has waited for this very minute for you to come to Me…. Look and see, My arms reaching out in loving embrace which is not of this world…. I AM’s embrace is Eternal….. Come to Me.
Satisfy My heart, rest in My mercy and love which never fails….. I AM yours.
Are you Mine?
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