Life is a movement from one decision to another. Whether it be the small decisions about places to eat and books to read, or the larger ones about who to marry and which jobs to pursue, decisions flood our lives on a daily basis. Because we make choices so often, one large part [...]
Wisdom to give up control, that is.
Last night I was reminded of the story of Moses and his father-in-law, Jethro. As I looked over Exodus 18, the first thing that struck me was the genuine concern those men showed for each other. I read that
Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed [...]
In this final post on the topic of What Wisdom is Not, I hope to wrap up the ideas that I introduced in the previous two posts.
In Part I of this topic, which you can read here, I wrote that pride seems to be the downfall of man, for it causes him to take what [...]
I wrote a while back about my desire to focus my writing on the topic of taming my intellect and what that should look like practically. As I meditated on, read about, and prayed over this topic, I began to see that I needed to begin by reflecting on wisdom itself and on [...]
I have spent much of my twenty years in confusion, wondering what to do with the intellect that I have been given. I have wavered back and forth between relishing my mind and hating it, praising God for it and begging that He would explain why I had to live with it. Knowledge [...]
You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, “No one sees me”;your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray,and you said in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.”But evil shall come upon you, which you will not know how to charm away;disaster shall fall [...]
