Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

January 14, 2020

“Feelings are raw, when has wisdom ever acted from raw emotions without making a fool out of wisdom?”

Proverbs 28:26 One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

Proverbs 24:3 Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;

Proverbs 23:9 Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

Facts: Every time I utter the word "wisdom," someone giggles or sneers. Wisdom, more so even than expertise, does not sit comfortably in a democratic, anti-elitist society. In an age dominated by science and technology, by specialization and compartmentalization, it is too loose, too grand, and too mysterious a concept. With our heads in our smartphones and tablets, in our bills and bank statements, we simply do not have the time or mental space for it.

But things were not always thus. The word "wisdom" features 222 times in the Old Testament, which includes all of seven so-called "wisdom books": Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Solomon, the Book of Wisdom, and Sirach. "For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it" (Ecclesiastes 7:12). Many things can lengthen your life, but only wisdom can save it. Facts by Neel Burton M.D.

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