Sunday, January 12, 2014

Wisdom...Insight

Proverbs 9:6 reads: Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of insight.

Insight is defined as “the capacity to gain an accurate and deep intuitive understanding of a person or thing.”

I appreciate that the crafters of the NIV translation of the Bible have used this word “insight”. The author of this passage depicts wisdom as a woman who is encouraging the simple to follow her ways.  Wisdom is defined as “the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment; the quality of being wise.” But this passage takes it even deeper to explain that the following of wisdom’s ways fosters the gaining of an accurate and deep intuitive understanding. This goes beyond head-knowledge to gut-level intuition.

I praise God that through reading His word, through the indwelling of His Spirit, and through embracing His wisdom we can gain an insight that will be deeply engrained—to lead us and guide us through this crazy thing called life.  

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