How confused and confusing we can become if we do not learn how to see the scriptures from the light of God. It's so easy to misconstrue what the Spirit us saying to us through His words in print.
It seems that It's not a tough thing to distinguish between a fool and a wise man in our world, however from the little light I have received from God into His word I have come to see that our way of judging who is wise and foolish is different from how God views same. We use to think that it is how vast and deep a person's knowledge base is or how confounding he applies and practices truths that makes them wise before God. High intelligent quotient, success and achievement, eloquence speech and powerful philosophical depth are all good but doesn't really basically define wisdom with God.
While all these may also be a part of the components of wisdom, they are not the basic parts. Wisdom according to the scripture has a foundation that it lays in the life of any man who would be called wise. The scriptures reveals that wisdom would be justified by her fruits. Hence, the wise king Solomon revealed to us that the first fruit, foundation and the first installment of wisdom in the life of any man is the fear of God. (Proverbs 9:10). This truth was also confirmed in Psalms 111:10 thus giving us a basis for the witness of truth.
Knowledge, intelligence, brevity, time management, mentoring, acumen are all powerful attributes of wise men but the foundation that carries all these loads and benefits of wisdom on it is the fear of God. Anyone who appears to be wise but doesn't fear God is a very big fool. Even though he may seems to possess worldly characteristics of wisdom but before God he is nowhere to be found.
The basis attitude that a wise man has is the recognition of the sovereignty of God by revelation and responding to this God with humble reverence not out of fear but out of a revelation of divine worth and love.
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