Wisdom, Understanding and Knowledge

Wisdom, understanding and knowledge are 3 words we read a lot about in the book of Proverbs.  This morning I read that God created the earth and the heavens by wisdom, understanding and knowledge (Prov 3:19-20).  These intellectual traits and properties of the heart are tools shared with us by our loving God.  In one of my favorite passages we read that our house (symbolic for our home lives) is built and established by wisdom, understanding and knowledge.  On a smaller scale, we can do what God does.

It is because God made us in His image that He shares his tools with us.  He trains us like a father would train his children, and gradually entrusts His tools to us. Our intellect changes as our minds are renewed. (Rm 12:2)  God intends that, as we look at Him and His example, we will go “from glory to glory” in this life, with a changing heart and mind.

And we, who with unveiled faces reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, Who is the Spirit. (2 Cor 3:18).

Perhaps we do not believe we are made in His image (likeness) because of the errors of our ways.  Are we meant to believe only if we are perfect?  Or should the believing in God’s good intentions for our lives perfect us?  I believe it is the latter.  If we find continual fault with ourselves we miss the image we are patterned after, and we lack faith to use the tools available to us to build a great life.

Today, let us look at the One who created us as the One who had good intentions for doing so.  Let us use the tools of wisdom, understanding and knowledge to build good lives for ourselves and for others as a legacy of what can be done by those created in His image.

Amen.