Proverbs 4:7–Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding. NIV

When I was a teenager I remember putting up a small fence with my uncle, and he would hand me certain tools without explaining what it was used for.  To my embarrassment and shame, I didn’t want to pretend I didn’t know how to use it, so I would just fidget with it.  Until he would laugh and then show me how to use it..

As Christians we would agree that wisdom comes from God, and amazingly so He invites us to seek it from Him, without any fear of embarrassment that we don’t understand something.  So we don’t have to pretend we know what we’re doing with our life and relationships, we can simply ask Him in faith. (James 1:5)

But how much does our pride get in the way of admitting we don’t know or understand how to handle people/things in our life?  The Lord doesn’t expect us to know how to be married, raise children, nor proceed in what we are called to do, yet He does expect us to seek wisdom to navigate through it.

Throughout the Bible, wisdom is characterized to be much more precious than gold (money), because we can have money and not understand how to use it.  As well as a spouse or children, and neglect seeking wisdom to understand relating to them. (Proverbs 3:13-15)

Receiving wisdom from God doesn’t alleviate us from trials and the problems of life and family.  But it does protect us from adding foolishly to the troubles we will go through in this life.  Wisdom affords us the opportunity to be peacemakers in relationships, and provide solutions to situations.  But it does require us to admit we don’t know what we’re doing without shame, but in faith that God will provide wisdom whenever we need it. (Matthew 5:9, James 1:6)

In His Love, Ld