A LIFE WELL LIVED – PARTS 3 & 4
August 1st, 2013
Wisdom is the best friend you will ever have in this life- Godly wisdom, that is. Every decision, choice and more, comes out of process where at least some measure of wisdom has been applied to the decision. It all goes back to your Perception (as we saw in Part 2). Your perception is your worldview, and hopefully – for your own sake – it is a Biblical worldview. Now Wisdom is the outflow of that worldview. Therefore, again – for your own sake – it is preferably the Wisdom that comes from God!
A perfect example is a man who just became the head of a favored organization and was set to undertake one of the most amazing projects in History. All he had to do was follow his beloved late father’s plans and execute. Being a very young man (he called himself a child), he needed guidance and in 1 Kings 3:5, God Himself appeared to Solomon in a vision and offered to give him ANYTHING he asked for!
PART 4
Webster’s dictionary describes AWE as an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred.Another dictionary defines awe as “a feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder”. In both cases, we see two things – the use of the words “feeling (or emotion)” and secondly – “sacred (or reverential)”.
Both definitions include the words “dread and fear” and both have the same word, wonder, at the end of their respective definition. So that does that mean to us? No one could have said it better than the great prophet Isaiah in Chapter 6 of his book..