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 WISDOM 

What the world’s system calls “wisdom” is anything BUT wisdom. It is fueled by the envy, self-centeredness, power-hungry malevolent evil of the fallen angel known as Satan. It is not wisdom at all.

James 3:13-16

“If you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your heart, do not cover up the truth with boasting and lying. For jealousy and selfishness are not God’s kind of wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, and demonic. For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind.”

There is nothing even close to humility is what the world calls wisdom. There is arrogance jealousy, envy, and even violent attempts to silence any opposing action or ideological frame of reference. In fact, righteousness has been “tagged” as dangerous to the functioning of the United States. There is such an increase of corruption in the governance of our nation that anyone or anything that seems to challenge the normative “wisdom” in the “halls of power” is deemed “criminal.”

Habakkuk 1:4 “Therefore, the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.”

This has been the way of the world since Adam’s rebellion in the Garden of Eden. Mankind has swallowed the poison that it can make life work better without any help from the One Who created it. And history’s record is that humanity does not learn from history. But, you know, Jesus Christ made it very clear that this kind of corruption and systemic evil would grow and increase as the end of time approaches. It is one of the signs that the end is near. Wars and rumors of wars, wickedness in high places, famines, pestilence, earthquakes, and the like. They are increasing, and will continue to increase.

As time runs out on mankind before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, there is meant to be a clear differentiation between followers of Jesus Christ and those who are controlled by the spirit of the age, Satan, himself.

James 3:17-18

 “But the wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and the fruit of good deeds. It shows no favoritism and is always sincere. And those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace and reap a harvest of righteousness.”

Followers of Jesus Christ put no confidence in any human capacity to make life work as God intended it to. We are commanded to bless those who curse us, pray for those who misuse and abuse us, work for the salvation of those who oppose themselves. A peacemaker is not merely a “peacekeeper.” A peacemaker works for change, for hearts to be transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit, for God’s will to be demonstrated through Jesus’ disciples. The Kingdom of God will prevail; it will not fail, even in the face of evil’s fury.

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