Wisdom in Action

Acquiring wisdom should be our daily pursuit……

No one is born wise; we must acquire wisdom from God if we are to be truly wise: “Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies. I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes. I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts” (Psalms 119:98–100).

Ephesians 3:14-24- For this reason (grasping the greatness of this plan by which Jews and Gentiles are joined together in Christ) I bow my knees (in reverence) before the Father (of our Lord Jesus Christ), 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name (God—the first and ultimate Father). 16 May He grant you out of the riches of His glory, to be strengthened and spiritually energized with power through His Spirit in your inner self, (indwelling your innermost being and personality), 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through your faith. And may you, having been (deeply) rooted and (securely) grounded in love, 18 be fully capable of comprehending with all the saints (God’s people) the width and length and height and depth of His love (fully experiencing that amazing, endless love); 19 and (that you may come) to know (practically, through personal experience) the love of Christ which far surpasses (mere) knowledge (without experience), that you may be filled up (throughout your being) to all the fullness of God (so that you may have the richest experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely filled and flooded with God Himself).20 Now to Him who is able to (carry out His purpose and) do superabundantly more than all that we dare ask or think (infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, hopes, or dreams), according to His power that is at work within us, 21 to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever. Amen.

Wisdom in Action……

In the first three chapters of Ephesians, Paul gives our position. He describes us. This is who we are, and then in verse 14 to 21 of chapter 3, it’s a push to action. You put the key in the ignition and get going. In other words, this is who you are, now start your motor, and then starting in chapter 4 you begin to move, and when you move, you walk, verse 1, worthy. This is the walk. Your ignition is in 14 to 21; you’re started, and now you’re moving in chapter 4, and he says, here’s how to walk. It’s a worthy walk, and then he gives the ingredients of the worthy walk. Verses 1 to 3, it’s a walk in all lowliness; it’s a humble walk. Verses 4 through 16, it is a unity walk. We are to build unity. Verse 13 nails that down. From chapter 4:17-32, it’s a different walk. We’re not to walk as the Gentiles. From chapter 5 verses 1 through 7, it is a love walk. Chapter 5:8-14, it is a light walk, not darkness but light, and now 15 to 17 of chapter 5, a wise walk.

When we are committed to trusting Him and obeying His Word, He pours out His wisdom on us……

Note: What Paul is saying in all these is you’re different. The world cannot walk humbly. It’s a mad fight for everybody’s rights. They don’t know the meaning of humility. The world cannot walk in unity. It celebrates its differences; it exalts its disparities. It makes an entire structure based on difference, divergence, differing opinions; and the world can’t love, because it doesn’t have the life of God; and God is love, and apart from Him there’s no real love. The world can’t know light because it is in itself a system of self-damning darkness, and the world can’t know wisdom because the wisdom of God is hidden from the mind of man.

Knowing the depths of walking in Godly wisdom……

Note:  A believer who walks in wisdom knows three things: He/She knows life’s principles; we know our limited privileges; and we know the Lord’s purposes. To put it another way, he/she knows what the rules are for life. He/She knows what God has laid out. Secondly, we ought to know that we have a limited time to fulfill it. Thirdly, we ought to know specifically what God wants us to do. It’s a very simple statement, but it’s one of the most profound in the entire book of Ephesians. He/She knows life’s principles, our limited privileges, and our Lord’s purposes. These are the characteristics of a wise walking Christian.

Walk means daily conduct, daily pattern, and daily life. This was always the Jewish concept – behavior, not theory. Look at the word circumspectly. Powerful word. It means accurately, carefully, and exactly. To be circumspect is to look carefully from side-to-side, to be very alert to what is going on. You need to walk very alert. You’re literally walking through a minefield in the world, and you can’t just go traipsing through it like you were lollygagging in a meadow full of daisies. You are walking a walk in a system in the world that demands that you walk circumspectly, carefully, exactly, and accurately, and that’s precisely what our Lord Jesus meant in Matthew 7:13, when He said narrow is the gate and narrow is the way. It is compressed; it is narrow; and you must watch where you go.

In order to succeed in ministry and have a mind for the mission. We must yield to Godly instruction and wisdom.