THE PRICE OF WISDOM

Welcome to Charted Ways and to Ageless Wisdom. Wisdom is neither scarce nor hidden! She calls aloud in the street She raises her voice in the public squares She cries out at the head of the noisy streets She makes her speech in the gate ways of the city. WHY THEN DO PEOPLE LACK WISDOM? People are who they are because of what they love. Simples ones love simple ways. Change what you love and you will change your life. Mediocres (neither wise nor foolish) are the way they are because they love mediocrity! “my people love to have it so”. The poor love poverty; that is why they always defend it. Whatever you love, you defend. People do what they do because they delight in it. Mockers delight in mockery. Drunkards delight in wine. That is why they spend their time with drinks. What do you delight in? Is it empowering or disempowering you? Switch your delight to what will profit you. People are where they are because of what they hate. Fools hate knowledge. The wise hate folly. What you hate cannot come to you or give you what it has. You stay away from anything you hate-just as you spend time with what you love. If you are not running towards knowledge, then you hate knowledge. Read, ask questions. If you love simplicity, delight in mockery and hate knowledge, there is no way you can hear the voice of wisdom. WHAT WILL IT COST YOU TO GET WISDOM? Just one thing? "Turn at my rebuke; surely" One of the things that wisdom does is to rebuke; and the purpose of rebuke is to get you to turn. Wisdom is not surprised that you could make a wrong decisions. What wisdom wants from you is to turn at his rebuke or confrontation. All were born in sin, and live sinful lives. The word of God comes to confront and redirect us. Two strong promises await those who turn (repent) at the confrontation of wisdom: 1. "I will pour out my spirit upon you." The purpose of this outpouring is to make it possible for you to operate at the level and standard of the expectation of wisdom. The out-pouring takes beyond you the your normal human level. When the Spirit came upon Saul, he was turned into another man. When the Spirit came upon David, exploits followed. When the Spirit came upon the earliest apostles and disciples, they spoke with other tongues and prophesied. The Spirit of wisdom will move you to a supernatural realm of mental exploits. 2. "I will make my words known to you" Unless God reveals His word to you, you cannot know it. God is the teacher and interpreter of His word. After Jesus rose from the dead, he opened the scriptures to the disciples on the way to Emmaus (Luke 24:27-32). It is your turn to be enlightened. Wisdom will become your Private Tutor. - Nkem Okemiri. Read Proverbs 1:20-31