Wisdom part 4
With all your getting, get wisdom. It's that important. Understanding what we know is that important. Not just head knowledge--knowing ABOUT God--but heart knowledge--KNOWING God. Wisdom is where the head MEETS the heart. Where things line up. You can't keep fighting between head and heart. Between flesh and Spirit. Because a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. There's no flow to a life like that. Second guessing every decision. Running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to fit a round peg into a square hole. Trying to finish a work that is already finished. Trying to perfect ourselves when we're already perfect. We ARE complete in Him. That's a done deal. Because He is complete in us. How could you get more perfect than having the perfect One live inside you? It's not about BECOMING perfect. It's about MARKING the perfect man. Because the end of THAT man is peace. Peace from the war that we've created between the head and the heart. Peace from trying to make things make sense. Spirit doesn't make sense to flesh. "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be" (Romans 8:7). Guys... we're talking about knowledge that passes knowledge. The knowledge of God's love. Because it doesn't come from without. It comes from within. Deep inside where wisdom is hidden in the heart. According to Proverbs 23:7 man THINKS with his heart. And as he thinks with his heart... so is he. Our true identity is the inner man. The hidden man of the heart. Jesus. God in the flesh. Love in a body. God in OUR flesh. Love in OUR body. We KNOW this. But we don't always understand everything we know. That's why the Holy Spirit leads and guides us into all truth. That's why this journey--into the heart of the matter, which is the heart--is a never-ending journey. It's a life-long journey, and we have been given eternal, everlasting life! So it would be foolish to just take what the world throws at us and try to do the best we can with it, wouldn't it? A fool says in his heart, "there is no God." Or he says no TO God. Either way He rejects the Truth and swallows the lie. The lie that says you have to DO in order to BE. The lie that says you have to EARN your heavenly Father's love. God loves you. He always has and He always will. That's not just what He does. That's who He IS. GOD IS LOVE. Wisdom is simply receiving and releasing that love. Letting God love you by knowing and believing He loves you. And here's the best part: In order to have faith in God, He first had to show Himself faithful. Faith comes from hearing, and hearing from the Word of God. He proved His love for us when He gave us His only begotten Son. When Jesus gave His life for us and gave His life to us. There is no greater expression of love that a man can have. As you are loved... love others. Love them the way THEY need to be loved, not the way YOU wish you were loved. Because the way you receive love might be different than the way they do. Love wisely. Meet people where they are at. And instead of trying to drag them away from where they're at, just love them right there. Right at that level. Show them something different. Something better. A more excellent way. Don't love in order to get something--because love is giving. It is never about getting at all--love because you HAVE something. Something that is too good to keep to yourself. Something that is so good you just have to share it. There's nothing wiser than that!