Why do we need wisdom?

We need wisdom in the decisions we must make. Many of our decisions will not be between right and wrong. They will not be a choice between legal and illegal or between moral and immoral. There will be no command you can find in Scripture that applies to that situation. So, how will you decide. These kind of decisions include what college you choose to attend, what person you choose to marry, what company you choose to work for, how many children you choose to have, etc.

When the choice we are making isn’t a matter of right and wrong then we must discern what is wise and what is unwise.

We need wisdom in the challenges we will face. January 1^st was the first day in a New Year. You probably noticed that lots of the issues of 2010 were still on your plate. If you are in a difficult situation you will need wisdom to navigate it. Wisdom will help you handle the challenges of an insecure work environment. It will help you address communication challenges in your relationships. It will help you direct your resources.

Sometimes the challenge before us will not be resolved by asserting our will, but rather by accessing wisdom.

We need wisdom in the problems we must solve. There are issues that drain us and frustrate us. Avoiding a problem will not make it go away – in fact that strategy often allows it to get worse. Just because the solution isn’t obvious doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. You may have tried a solution and discovered it did not work. That doesn’t mean there is no solution.

Wisdom can resolve what is unsolved in your life.

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Steve Otto

I love this. It’s these type of decisions that make such a huge impact in your life. There are so many situations where you can make a decision that is not necessarily wrong in any way but will still have a big impact in your life.

Andy Stanley says:

Direction, Not Intention, Determines Destination.

You can have all the good intentions in the world but if you make bad choices you’ll still go down the wrong path. So often we see in ourselves and in others where you find yourself in a situation that seems like bad luck, or really bad misfortune. But you can almost always trace that back to a decision that was made.
“I can’t believe my car died.” – Maybe I shouldn’t have been skipped my last two oil changes.
“I can’t believe my boyfriend/girlfriend has cheated on me” – Maybe I should have chosen to date someone who seeks God first.
It comes down to the choices we make. And we so easily seem to disconnect the consequences from the choices we make that lead up to that consequence. If you find yourself saying, “I can’t believe this happened to me” maybe you need to change the process in how you make decisions. I know there are certainly some situations in which we really do have bad luck, but I would certainly love to have God’s Wisdom for every decision I make. (Now if I can only remember to apply this to every decision I make myself!)

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