What is the source of my wisdom?

Stop fooling yourselves. If you count yourself above average in intelligence, as judged by this world’s standards, you had better put this all aside and be a fool rather than let it hold you back from the true wisdom from above.  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As it says in the book of Job, God uses man’s own brilliance to trap him; he stumbles over his own “wisdom” and falls. And again, in the book of Psalms, we are told that the Lord knows full well how the human mind reasons and how foolish and futile it is. So don’t be proud of following the wise men of this world. For God has already given you everything you need. - 1 Corinthians 3:18-21 (Living Bible)

Let any such man renounce his own wisdom in order that he may receive the wisdom of God. — Charles Hodge

But the spiritual man has insight into everything, and that bothers and baffles the man of the world, who can’t understand him at all.  How could he? For certainly he has never been one to know the Lord’s thoughts, or to discuss them with him, or to move the hands of God by prayer.  But, strange as it seems, we Christians actually do have within us a portion of the very thoughts and mind of Christ. - 1 Corinthians 2:15-16 (Living Bible)

Human wisdom has no bearing on the knowledge of God; it has no bearing on the plan of salvation; it has no bearing on the principles of living the Christian life. And what divides the church is when people begin to get their opinion and set it up as the authority in the areas of spiritual life. Then you get division. This is intellectual pride. The church must create an atmosphere in which the Word of God is honored, in which the Word of God is submitted to, so that there will be no equating of human opinion with the Scripture. - John MacArthur

For the reverence and fear of God are basic to all wisdom. Knowing God results in every other kind of understanding. “I, Wisdom, will make the hours of your day more profitable and the years of your life more fruitful.” Wisdom is its own reward, and if you scorn her, you hurt only yourself. - Proverbs 9:10-12 (Living Bible)

If you think that your human wisdom is sufficient for your life, you’re wrong. If when you have a problem in your home, you turn to the principles of psychology instead of the Word of God, you’ve missed it. If you’ve got a problem in your life and you go to the psychiatrist instead of the Holy Spirit, you’ve blown it. If you’re trying to solve a problem of ethics or a problem of behavior in your business, and you’re looking to what is expedient and what the wisest thing to do is instead of what the Word of God says, you’ve missed it. That’s what we mean by using the Word of God in terms of Christian life rather than human wisdom.- John MacArthur

The Lord is good and glad to teach the proper path to all who go astray; he will teach the ways that are right and best to those who humbly turn to him.  And when we obey him, every path he guides us on is fragrant with his loving-kindness and his truth. - Psalm 25:8-10 (Living Bible)

It is as if all things in life are a multitude of servants surrounding us on bended knees. They hold out their precious offerings to us. Some of these servants, like pain and injury and sickness and grief, may at first have a strange look to us who do not know our royalty sufficiently. It is God who commissions them all and makes each one bring us some blessing, so that as kings unto God, we shall lack nothing.- R. C. H. Lenski

“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord.  “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.  For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts. - Isaiah 55:8-9 (NLT)

Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding.  Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.  Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom.  Instead, fear the Lord and turn away from evil. - Proverbs 3:5-7 (NLT)

Lord, strip me of the illusion that I am wise on my own.
Teach me to distrust my natural judgments when they contradict Your Word.
Give me a heart that trembles at Your voice, not the world’s voice.
Make me small in my own eyes, so that Your wisdom may dwell richly within me.
May the foolishness of the cross be my true wisdom, and the humility of Christ be my true mind.
Amen.

Be Encouraged to make the truth of God your source of wisdom.








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