Tag Archive | knowledge

Wisdom? Understanding?

Mar12

Give instruction to a wise man and he will be still wiser, Teach a righteous man and he will increase his learning.
Proverbs 9:9 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.9.9.NASB1995

Where then does wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:20 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/job.28.20.NASB1995

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
Proverbs 9:10 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.9.10.NASB1995

A wise man will hear and increase in learning, And a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel,
Proverbs 1:5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.1.5.NASB1995

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise endures forever.
Psalms 111:10 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.111.10.NASB1995

🌹And to man He said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; And to depart from evil is understanding.’ ”
Job 28:28 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/job.28.20-28.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Wise or Foolish?

Mar10

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.1.7.NASB1995

He who corrects a scoffer gets dishonor for himself, And he who reproves a wicked man gets insults for himself.
Proverbs 9:7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.9.7.NASB1995

So,

Do not speak in the hearing (ears) of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Proverbs 23:9 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.23.9.NASB1995

🌹He is on the path of life who heeds instruction, But he who ignores reproof goes astray.
Proverbs 10:17 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.10.17.NASB1995

What path are you taking?

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Portrait 2, Walk in Him

Jan8

Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk (lead your life) in Him,
Colossians 2:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.2.6.NASB1995

– walk in a manner worthy of the Lord
So that you will
– please Him in all respects
– bear fruit in every good work
– increase in the knowledge of God
Colossians 1:10 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.1.10.NASB1995

And . . .

having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in (by) your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.
Colossians 2:6-7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.2.7.NASB1995

🌹 . . . we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ,
Ephesians 4:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/eph.4.15.NASB1995

The Christian walk doesn’t stop or culminate at salvation. It is the beginning, not the end, of an eternal walk with Jesus.

Portrait #1 Christ in You
Portrait #2 Walk in Him

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https:/indasharonjesus.org

Lacking Wisdom?

Jun5

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
James 1:5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.1.5-8.NASB1995

Solomon, a young boy becomes King. He prays asking God for discernment in judging His great people. Solomon was asking for wisdom and knowledge to rule God’s people well.
It was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this. God gave Solomon a wise and discerning heart.
1 Kings 3:9-10/2 Chronicles 1:10

God said to Solomon, “Because you had this in mind, and did not ask for riches, wealth or honor, or the life of those who hate you, nor have you even asked for long life, but you have asked for yourself wisdom and knowledge that you may rule My people over whom I have made you king, wisdom and knowledge have been granted to you.”
2 Chronicles 1:11-12a NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2ch.1.8-12.NASB1995

Are you seeking wisdom from God?

. . . ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
James 1:6-8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.1.5-8.NASB1995

🌹And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.
1 John 5:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.5.15.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Is Your Light On?

Oct31

For we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants for Jesus’ sake.
For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:5-6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2co.4.5-6.NASB1995

As bond-servants of Jesus, who lives in us, we shine the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. What a tremendous responsibility to be faithful in our obedient walk with God.

Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son.
2 John 1:9 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2jn.1.9.NASB1995

🌹But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;
2 Corinthians 4:7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2co.4.7.NASB1995

Shine His Light to the glory of God! 🙌

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Knowledge and Wisdom

Oct30

The mind (heart) of the prudent (careful, cautious, discreet, reasonable) acquires knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Proverbs 18:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.18.15.NASB1995

The fear of the Lord is the instruction for wisdom, And before honor comes humility.
Proverbs 15:33 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.15.33.NASB1995

He whose ear listens to the life-giving reproof Will dwell among the wise.
Proverbs 15:31 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.15.31.NASB1995

Are we wise and knowledgeable in the things of God?

🙏Let us pray, believing . . .
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you (us) a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him.
Ephesians 1:17 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/eph.1.17.NASB1995

🌹Amen

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon                                                                        https://indasharonjesus.org. 

Mankind Versus God

Jul11

Mankind:
Surely I am more stupid than any man, And I do not have the understanding of a man. Neither have I learned wisdom, Nor do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.
Proverbs 30:2-3 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.30.2-3.NASB1995

Versus God:
Who has ascended into heaven and descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has wrapped the waters in His garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name or His son’s name? Surely you know!
Proverbs 30:4 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.30.4.NASB1995

Do you know?

Jesus says:
No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man.
John 3:13 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.3.13.NASB1995

The Lord rules over everything.

Whatever the Lord pleases, He does, In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps. He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; Who makes lightnings for the rain, Who brings forth the wind from His treasuries.
Psalms 135:6-7 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.135.6-7.NASB1995

For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited), “I am the Lord, and there is none else.
Isaiah 45:18 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.45.18.NASB1995

Do you know who God is? Do you KNOW Him?

🌹The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
Proverbs 9:10 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.9.10.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Seeking Wisdom?

Jun24

For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 2:6 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.2.6.NASB1995

‭In 1 Kings 3, Solomon, the son of David, was a little child when he became King in place of his father. God spoke with Solomon and said, “ask what you wish Me to give you.” Solomon requested an understanding heart to judge the Lord’s people to discern between good and evil. It was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing. “God said to him, ‘Because you have asked for yourself discernment to understand justice, behold, I have done according to your words. Behold, I have given you a wise and discerning heart,'”

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.
James 3:17 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.3.17.NASB1995

🌹But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
James 1:5 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.1.5.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Humbled

Jun21

“Who is this that darkens counsel By words without knowledge?
Now gird up your loins like a man, And I (The Lord God) will ask you, and you instruct Me!

Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding,
Who set its measurements? Since you know. Or who stretched the line on it?
On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone,
When the morning stars sang together And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
“Or who enclosed the sea with doors When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;
When I made a cloud its garment And thick darkness its swaddling band,
And I placed boundaries on it And set a bolt and doors,
And I said, ‘Thus far you shall come, but no farther; And here shall your proud waves stop’?
Job 38:2-11 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/job.38.2-11.NASB1995

Mighty is our God! Creator of all! To God be the glory!! I am silenced before Him.

(Recommended reading: Job 38:1-41; Job 39:1-30)

‭🌹“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who reproves God answer it.”
Job 40:2 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/job.40.2.NASB1995

Continually Seeking

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Mother Eve (Genesis 1-4)

May6

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Genesis 1:27 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/gen.1.27.NASB1995

‭So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
Genesis 2:21-22 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/gen.2.21-22.NASB1995

‭🌹Now the man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.
Genesis 3:20 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/gen.3.20.NASB1995

Eve. Created by God. Created for God’s purpose.

Eve. The first mother. The mother of all the living.

Eve. She knew God personally. She walked with God in the Garden of Eden.

Eve. The first to know the heartache of losing a child. The first one to experience all the firsts of motherhood.

The first to pass on the knowledge of God to generations to come.

‭These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.
So the Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God for our good always and for our survival, as it is today.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7, 24 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/deu.6.6-24.NASB1995

Thank you, God, for Eve.
Mothers have the responsibility to pass on to their children the knowledge of God.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org