The Legacy of Wisdom

 Proverbs 2:6 "For the Lord giveth wisdom..."

I have lived a few years and experienced a lot of life. I hope I've learned and gained some knowledge from living.

There is so much truth in Socrates' words: "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." With all my knowledge and experience, I can still lack wisdom. To me, an experienced person who thinks they know it all is someone you avoid conversing with.

Wisdom does not come automatically in the aging process. There is nothing learned or experienced that can insure it makes you wise except if funneled through God's gifting to you. 

We err to think we can be wise within ourselves.  Wisdom is a gift from God. I know and have known many uneducated

people who mirror wisdom. It comes from living life in God's shadow.

Wisdom isn't spouting intellect and advice. It is more the knowing what really matters and what doesn't. It is sensing when to speak and when to listen. It is realizing that you should listen more than talk. It is understanding your limitations when involved with conflict and problems of life.  It is living so much in God that His voice speaks through you. Wisdom is His anointing on your output whenever and whatever.

I have mentors that I love to be with. Just their presence soothes me and I soak up their giving. I often seek them out and bask in their presence. It is like I am sitting in the  presence of the closest 

thing to God that I can experience. I value any words they speak.

I am benefiting from their Legacy of Wisdom.  And I hope I am learning and investing from the profit I have gained. But in reality, as much as I have gained from their input into my life, one fact is plain to  see. If I want to have wisdom, I have to go to the Source. Another scripture in James 1:5 says, "If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God..."

It's my job to ask for this gift in able to give it out.