I’ve heard the wisdom question asked this way, “In light of your past experiences, your current circumstances & your future hopes & dreams, what is the wise thing to do?” My friend introduced the word & wise question when his daughter just started understanding words. The question of wisdom gets me to thinking rather than just following a set of rules. Rules are for the mindless & don’t honor or respect the individual.
I had a string of train wreck relationships in my past, I was in a state of devastation because of that & I wanted a healthy, genuinely loving, Christ centered marriage. The wise thing to do was to follow some wise counsel & devote my intimacy life to Christ. I gave up pornography & committed to not having premarital sex along with a lot of other devotional behavior. (This was in the late 2010’s & I was in my 40’s). The marriage I have today is unbelievable, my wife tells me all the time how honored she feels by me, she trusts me because I’m trustworthy, among other fantastic characteristics of our marriage. The wise thing to do was to love my wife as Christ loved the church, He laid His life down for her. The wise thing to do was to lay down my selfish desires & hurtful actions for her betterment, this was my mindset when I was single & I didn’t know who “she” was. My hopes & dreams were to have something better than I had & what I got was better than I could imagine.
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing is probably not the greatest idea to add a tomato to a traditional fruit salad.
Kids go to college for knowledge. However, just because we know how to do something, doesn't mean that it is good or useful. We try to avoid moralistic concepts, especially in the West, however, the reality is that humankind is constantly choosing between what makes us happy/fulfills our desires and what ultimately leads to human flourishing. We see things from such a limited point of view that often we get the two mixed up. Our intentions may have been in the right place, but we have no way of seeing the unintended reactions that may occur long after we have taken action. Our foresight is limited and we do not understand all the laws of the universe to be able to fully predict what will happen. Even the wisest person can only catch a glimpse of the future.
Wisdom...points us in the way of life. And since God is the source of life, we can trust that His guidance is true. That may be a lot for a college kid to grapple with, however, if you truly have a child that is wrestling with the deepest questions of human existence, it may open them up to obtaining more wisdom instead of just the endless pursuit of knowledge.
This makes me think of something my Buddhist friend says. She's quite wise, I often go to her for advice. She reframes it as 'what is the skillful thing to do in this situation?' I like that, it takes out the moralistic weight I bring to things
I’ve heard the wisdom question asked this way, “In light of your past experiences, your current circumstances & your future hopes & dreams, what is the wise thing to do?” My friend introduced the word & wise question when his daughter just started understanding words. The question of wisdom gets me to thinking rather than just following a set of rules. Rules are for the mindless & don’t honor or respect the individual.
I had a string of train wreck relationships in my past, I was in a state of devastation because of that & I wanted a healthy, genuinely loving, Christ centered marriage. The wise thing to do was to follow some wise counsel & devote my intimacy life to Christ. I gave up pornography & committed to not having premarital sex along with a lot of other devotional behavior. (This was in the late 2010’s & I was in my 40’s). The marriage I have today is unbelievable, my wife tells me all the time how honored she feels by me, she trusts me because I’m trustworthy, among other fantastic characteristics of our marriage. The wise thing to do was to love my wife as Christ loved the church, He laid His life down for her. The wise thing to do was to lay down my selfish desires & hurtful actions for her betterment, this was my mindset when I was single & I didn’t know who “she” was. My hopes & dreams were to have something better than I had & what I got was better than I could imagine.
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Richard, you're a wise man. You listen to your mom 😊
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing is probably not the greatest idea to add a tomato to a traditional fruit salad.
Kids go to college for knowledge. However, just because we know how to do something, doesn't mean that it is good or useful. We try to avoid moralistic concepts, especially in the West, however, the reality is that humankind is constantly choosing between what makes us happy/fulfills our desires and what ultimately leads to human flourishing. We see things from such a limited point of view that often we get the two mixed up. Our intentions may have been in the right place, but we have no way of seeing the unintended reactions that may occur long after we have taken action. Our foresight is limited and we do not understand all the laws of the universe to be able to fully predict what will happen. Even the wisest person can only catch a glimpse of the future.
Wisdom...points us in the way of life. And since God is the source of life, we can trust that His guidance is true. That may be a lot for a college kid to grapple with, however, if you truly have a child that is wrestling with the deepest questions of human existence, it may open them up to obtaining more wisdom instead of just the endless pursuit of knowledge.
This makes me think of something my Buddhist friend says. She's quite wise, I often go to her for advice. She reframes it as 'what is the skillful thing to do in this situation?' I like that, it takes out the moralistic weight I bring to things