GET SMART

 

GET SMART

James 1:5 If you need wisdom—if you want to know what God wants you to do—ask him, and he will gladly tell you. He will not resent your asking. NLT

Perhaps you are old enough to remember that old TV show starring Don Adams, Get Smart. Maxwell Smart was a goofy special agent who always managed to get the bad guy with the aid of his woman partner. While the show has long been buried in the archives of TV shows, the title of the show grabs our attention.

The first few chapters of Proverbs give us a good idea of what wisdom is, why it’s important, and where we can get it. I Cor. 1:30 tells us that Jesus is our wisdom from God. So, in order to become wise, we must first know Christ as our Savior. The more influence we allow Jesus to have in our lives, the wiser we become.

Wisdom begins when we acknowledge our sins before God. A fool denies he has a sin problem. He refuses to admit that he struggles with sin. He lives with no sense of his accountability to God for how he lives. He refuses to agree with God what God declares what sin is. Wisdom is then accepting responsibility for our sins. It is turning to Christ for the forgiveness of our sins.

Wisdom influences how we think and act. It overshadows all of our living. It keeps us alert to our times of being tempted to sin and causes us to think twice before we act. It causes us to want to please God. It causes us to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. Wisdom enables us look at life through the lens of God’s righteousness instead of self-righteousness. Wisdom holds us steady through the maze of life. It enables us to see life from an eternal perspective instead of a worldly one.

For the child of God, wisdom comes naturally. We may not be as wise starting out in our faith walk as we should be, but we do become wiser as we learn to let control of our living and let Jesus be the Lord of it. Victory in Jesus comes when we become wise in Christ. It’s a process that we will never perfectly master in this life, but we do make progress as we go along. Let Jesus be Lord of all of your life and you will indeed become wise.