Truth and knowledge come to us ultimately from the Lord! All truth in the world is from God because God is truth! In a Wesleyan Theology Class material that I was teaching from the question was asked would you rather have a really smart, excellent brain surgeon who was an atheist or a fairly intelligent, mediocre brain surgeon who is a Christian?
So there must be something beyond truth that matters and the book of James describe it as two types of wisdom. Truth and knowledge are available to all but wisdom is what you do with the truth and how you apply truth to your life.
James 3:13-15 13 If you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom. 14 But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your heart, don’t cover up the truth with boasting and lying. 15 For jealousy and selfishness are not God’s kind of wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, and demonic.
Godly wisdom leads us to living an honorable life of doing good works in a humble way!!
Worldly wisdom leads us to living bitterly jealous lives full of selfish ambition. We end up boasting about our knowledge and not being truthful. We end up being jealous and selfish!
If we take an honest look at our lives in this moment - which of these wisdom's are we more like? How can me move closer to a Godly wisdom in our lives on a regular basis?
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