“Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding.”
Our six-word life plan is Faith, Love, Wisdom, Courage, Peace, and Joy.
We have discussed Faith as the engine of your life, and Love as the fuel. Today let’s look at “wisdom”, which we’ll call your compass.
In sports, even with athletic ability, you need direction. It doesn’t matter how fast you run if you don’t know where you’re going. Life is the same way – even with faith and love, you need wisdom if you want to know what direction to move. There are two things that facilitate wisdom… improving your stance - and improving your vision.
The power of an athlete is affected by his footwork. The power in your life depends on the same. A proper base makes you wise and stable, and the only foundation that provides this is scripture. Your daily strength and steadiness depend on your knowledge of the bible.
The second component of wisdom is vision. How often do coaches say, “keep your eye on the ball”? That’s because focus is crucial in achieving goals. In life if you are preoccupied by material things you will drift off course and be out of position. If you allow the urgent to distract you from the important it is the equivalent of taking your eye off the ball.
Wisdom is the ability to stand on scripture and see the goals God has given you. Michelangelo said: “The greatest danger is not that our aim is too high, and we miss, but that it is too low, and we reach it.” Wisdom perfects your aim allowing you to say, “Thy will - not my will.”
So how do you get wisdom?
Proverbs 2 says, it’s a gift from God. Proverbs 4 says, “Acquire wisdom; And with all your possessions, acquire understanding.” In other words, God will give it to you – but you must pursue it at all costs.
So, try this…. Proverbs has 31 chapters. That’s one for each day of the month. Pursue wisdom by reading a chapter a day. That’s a five-minute investment, that will have you reading Proverbs twelve times by next year. This will improve your stance and train your eyes, developing a compass that points true north and allows you to know what God expects you to do.
“Wisdom is looking at life from God’s point of view.” –Chuck Swindoll
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