what is wisdom?

Oh boy! In this day in age a believer must stay in the word at all times! One of my biggest blessings that I have been thanking God for is the ability to read and have the Bible for myself! I do not need to take someone else's word for it. Over the past few years I have really dug myself deep within the Word. I am more alive than I have ever been. At any time that I feel down and out, my first steps is to the Word. I have been more aware of God's steadfast care and love than I have ever felt before.

It is a sad thing to see a so called shepherd of the flock love Jesus Christ, the servant do-gooder, more so than God the Father who is often described as a jealous lover in the Old Testament. You cannot have one over the other. You may not fully understand one aspect of God over the others but it is a must to hold to all parts of the God-Head. All religions except for a born again believer dismiss Jesus Christ as a prophet but to dismiss God the Father blows my mind. But I am blessed with a good father. I have no problems believing in God the Father. Yet I yearn especially for the men who had bad fathers but are fathers themselves to really look at their own good father feelings they have for their children and see God the Father.

I have gotten off the path of where I was going. I don't know how to address this...

James 3:13-18 was the scripture and what really jerked my chain was the fact that it was called 'Wisdom of Jesus Christ'. I am sitting there with my Bible in hand testing what was spoken. See I firmly believe that good works is a bi-product of my faith not something I should be told to do over and over again. James is telling us what the fruit/good works looks like not telling us must do this if you are to have a saving faith. Faith must come first! God has said over and over again that a good person can do good things but it will amount to zero if there is no Salvation! James said that there is a wisdom that does not come from above but in Proverbs the opposite of wisdom is folly. You must watch what you say and you must use the whole Word not just the NT.

I love how God speaks to me through His Word. While James & Wisdom was being misrepresented, I was in Proverbs 9:10.
"The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom, & the Knowledge of the Holy One is Understanding." {{I can hardly sit still!}} There must be honor and respect that is so lacking in this age. There must be a quiet in order to hear His Whisper! But what do you find? A lot of excess NOISE and spinning. You cannot do anything unless you are filled up! Isn't this what has been said to the mothers? {{feeling the need to pace}} You cannot fill up on God when there is so much distractions. When you haven't searched God in His own Word and do not have an intimate relationship (salvation) and you go out to do your good deed, you are only vainly bringing glory to yourself.

After a family discussion and a week to mull over this wisdom - works thing, I hope to process my thoughts here and come up with questions. Questions are the way to learn.
Q1: What comes first - works or wisdom?
Q2: Is James telling us what kind of works gives us wisdom or is James describing the wise by what they do?
Q3: How do we become wise? good works or coming to feet of the Almighty God & reading , learning, & obeying Him?

Adrien Rogers put it in a nice formula:
faith that knows
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faith that grows
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faith that shows
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fruitful.

Fruitful is a bi-product of our faith. That is how others know you are rooted in God! And our fruit will bring God glory and not ourselves.


As a believer we must TEST EVERYTHING & HOLD TO WHAT IS TRUE
(I Thess 5:21).