Wisdom

The most important thing one can do in life is to get wisdom. Proverbs 4:5-7 says: “Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. Wisdom is the principal thing: therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.” According to this verse, wisdom is the most important thing that one must get.

Indeed, wisdom is the principal, most important thing one could ever get because according to I Corinthians 1:23-24,30, The Wisdom is Christ. Paul wrote in I Corinthians 1:23-24,30: “But we preach Christ crucified, [not in a manger scene] unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; [c.f. Acts 17:15-33] But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God… But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, …” Christ is the essence of wisdom; and, therefore, He defines it. Christ is the master of wisdom; and, therefore, He dispenses it. Christ is the epitome of wisdom; and, therefore, His children must love Him and He shall keep them. Christ is The Wisdom!

Therefore, Christ The Wisdom is the quintessential person one must get “…with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” (Matthew 22:37) because if one steps off into eternity without Christ, the “…one mediator between God and men…” (I Timothy 2:5), he will have all of eternity, after having heard God pronounce his condemnation, to look back on the life he wasted. Dr. Gill very aptly and beautifully describes one getting The Wisdom as follows: “…he being the only happy man that has an interest in him [Christ], and is possessed of him by faith, which is the meaning of getting him…”[1] So then, borrowing the words of Proverbs, I would admonish you, my dear reader, as well as myself, to get, with all our getting, The Wisdom. It says in James 1:5, “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, …” So, then, Christian, go to Christ and tell Him in the words of Solomon, “… and I am but a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in… Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people? And the speech pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing.” (I Kings 3:7, 9-10). What a blessed thought that the Lord was pleased by the prayers of a man; in the words of David in Psalm 8:7, “What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?” And, unbeliever, if God gives you the ability (Ephesians 3:8-9), flee to The Wisdom because eternity is such a very long time to regret!

E. Suttles, aged 15