Wisdom is Calling You

Wisdom is Calling You

Proverbs 1:20 – Wisdom cries without, she utters 

her voice in the streets.

    God offers His wisdom to all people, regardless of their station or status in life. It is available to all, but its procurement is conditional. Wisdom is offering herself to us but, like a beautiful, secure woman, she doesn’t chase after love, fishing for compliments, she waits to be pursued and chased after. The Wisdom of God does not randomly or erratically fall on people, it is given only to the hungry. Do you and I truly desire wisdom? Whatever we desire is what we will pursue, in fact, the pursuit is the evidence of desire. We may say that we want wisdom, but it does not come to lazy and lethargic people; it does not come to dreamers who sit down and put their feet up and merely hope for a better day.

    Wisdom cries and that cry must be responded to. The cry of hunger and the cry of humility must come up out of us to meet the cry of wisdom; indeed, the deep and hidden longings of God are crying out to the deep and hidden longings of man. The supply of wisdom in God’s heart is calling out to the need for wisdom in man’s heart.

    Wisdom cries without; which means it cries from outside of us. We do not have it internally, or naturally, it is separate from us and we must go get it. It is outside of our natural ability to produce true wisdom. Sometimes people in business might say that they need outside help; meaning that they need someone else to come from outside the organization and give an impartial perspective. Wisdom is just like that in that it is an uninfluenced and separate power being offered from an outside source.

    If it is not randomly given, then, who gets the wisdom? Those who hunger and seek for it. Those who are humble enough to realize that they need it. Those who desire it and are determined to acquire it. Those who make it a life-long quest. They are the ones who will benefit from the wise insight of the Almighty.

Are you and I included in that class of rare people who have enough humility and sense to know that they need higher wisdom? Are we that kind of people who intensely hunger for this wisdom and seek it out at the only true source? Wisdom is calling, are we answering the call?