“But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.” James. 3:14-15.
The early church had its quota of ambition seekers who acted out of envy and stirred up strife, and brought on confusion of every kind. These were often intelligent people, but their cleverness manifested the wrong kind of wisdom. It’s not enough to act or speak wisely, it’s important to be sure of the essence and source of such wisdom. In the days we live in false and sensual wisdom is unleashed upon the church. It takes some level of discernment to be able to understand the underlying operation of certain wisdom. Apostle James clearly says some wisdom are sensual, earthly and devilish. It no doubt requires so much discernment to be able to recognise the place of each seemingly wisdom. You will never lack such discernment in Jesus name.
Some of the clear indicators of false wisdom is “bitterness, envying and strife.” “Envying” denotes a fierce desire to promote one’s own opinion, and a harsh and resentful attitude toward others whom God may be using in a greater manner than He is using you. “Strife” conveys the thought of selfish ambition and party spirit. It describes the disposition of one who constantly struggles to forward his own selfish interests. If any of the above wrong attitudes have gripped you, you have become a victim of false wisdom, and such wrong attitudes are a lie against the truth.
We can speak the truth and bring a message that is biblically correct—but if bitterness and self-seeking attitudes accompany our message—there is a sense in which the truth of the message is cancelled out by the unspiritual state of the speaker. True “wisdom” is a gift from God. It comes down from above. It is the ability to know what is right and what is wrong; it is the capacity to distinguish between what is important and what is not important; it is the quality of being upright and holy without becoming self-righteous. True wisdom has eight specific characteristics. James. 3:17 names some of them: “But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.” This is the ideal we all must press into. Selah!
FURTHER READING:
“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.” James. 3:17.
“Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.” Rom. 13:13.
DECLARATION:
Dear Abba Father, thank You for the privilege of another day in the land of the living. Divine access is granted me today into Your presence and Your Will. Lord, I ask that You will anoint me with the God’s kind of wisdom that causes a man’s face to shine and brings a man before greatness. Lord I ask that from henceforth I begin to operate the supernatural dimension of Wisdom in the mighty name of Jesus, amen.
1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
Mark. 10:1-52. Mark. 11:1-33. Mark. 12:1-44. Mark. 13:1-37.
QUOTE FOR THE DAY:
“Every Life Lived According To Divine Wisdom Will Never Lack Divine Approval.”
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