Who is Wise and Understanding? |
I have often thought that you can identify wise people by listening carefully to what they say. Do they sound smart, so smart I can barely understand them? They always have a quick, certain answer. They just sound wise.
The Bible says you identify a wise person by what he does.
“Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that is works are done in the meekness of wisdom … wisdom that is from above is first pure, peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy, and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy” (James 3:13-18).
That is what a wise person looks like and sounds like. By God’s standard, who among us today is wise? Am I?
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