Last week Julie had some wisdom teeth, and as is the classic response to anyone getting their wisdom teeth out, we heard a lot of "Oh, you're going to lose all your wisdom now". Ha. Ha. Ha. <note the sarcasm> This is almost as funny a response to the classic post-jail ministry response of "Oh, they let you out again?" Once again, note the sarcastic laugh...
Back to the wisdom teeth thing though, it got me thinking about wisdom and how we react to it. The very word 'wisdom' conjures up various responses: often we hear prayers for the doctors to have wisdom as they operate on a sick friend or family member, we think of old people having lots of wisdom, we can recount the great wisdom of Solomon, especially the cutting the baby in half idea to identify the true mom. We think of owls as having wisdom (no earthly idea why that is?), and coaches giving us words of wisdom. If you go to Amazon.com and search for 'wisdom' in the books department, you come up with 35,021 results. Wisdom is everywhere!
The Bible has some interesting things to say about wisdom. In the book of Proverbs we see wisdom personified in contrast to folly (Prov. 9), and in my favorite wisdom passage, James 1, we see how to get it. Here's the awesome part about wisdom: if anyone is lacking, ask God for it, in faith, and He'll give it to you! Talk about simple! This is the very definition of an easy button! One might oppose by saying, "you're telling me if I ask for wisdom then God will give it to me?" Sounds too easy, huh? Well, for something that easy, not many of us are doing it!
Today, ask God for wisdom, in faith, believing, and He will give it to you. That what He said, and His word is good!
So, does losing wisdom teeth makes you lose wisdom? Nope. Quit spreading the lies. Instead, spread the simplicity of gaining it - simple faith that God will do what He says: He'll give liberally if you ask!
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