Can you tell which wisdom is which?

[Beaver]

Can you tell which wisdom is which?

James 3:13-18 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his words are done in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

To be able to tell which wisdom is which is where you will need the sword of the spirit, which is the Word of God. The Bible is clear on the fact that there are two different wisdom’s. One is from heaven the other is earthly. One is to place one’s self above another. The other wisdom is to bring someone up and make them equal to you.

Which wisdom is it that makes you wise?

[Jimmy]

I had a brush with this concept just last night. While reading Beaver’s post, I began to think “What on earth is he trying to say?” You can see my brain being spun around while I write my two responses. The first was me just saying “Hey, what’s up with this post?” and jsut as I posted that reply, the thought clicked with me. The concept sank in and I felt kinda foolish for not coming up with it. All day today, I chuckled at the thought. You goof, I said. It was staring you right in the face. When I came on tonight and read the post, another thought clicked in with me. I was thinking of last night’s post, I was thinking with my intellectual, active mind. I needed to think of it with my spiritual, passive mind. There is a difference, and I see it now. Our active intellectual mind is the devil’s playground. Here, he tries to use logic and doubt to defeat us. He creates chaos and confusion, and tells us that the wrong thing is right if we do it a certain way and that our intellect is greater than any other person’s belief can ever be. Our passive spiritual mind is where we go when we pray, when we worship, and when we get into our private areas and offer our deepest soul to God. This mind tells us that everything will be all right if we ask God to help us. I’m resolving here and now to use my passive spiritual mind more lightly, as sometimes you need to stop analyzing things in order to understand them better. Seeing and Hearing aren’t the same as Looking and Listening, and Thinking and Believing aren’t equal either. Here’s to the hope that we can expand our minds without inhibiting our hearts.

[Joey]

That is why they call it “The Tree of KNOWLEDGE of GOOD and EVIL”

Knowledge blinds people because they believe that it is what will set them free, the whole world is about school, and who knows what. When in truth it is not the knowledge but the refusal of the world telling you what you are good at. That is why there are people who don’t know Jesus that are successful, they never quit, they don’t let doubt enter. As christians we have that much more help to know that we shouldn’t quit.

I had a friend tell me once that you just throw your head over the fence and DO IT. You don’t lose until you quit.

Sounds to me like living by faith.

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