Real Life, Real Wisdom.

Posted on October 20, 2007
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Of the most of the important things that we learn in life, I think we learn them from experience.

Weâ€™ve learned them because they have become personal to us.

We might have read it first, or heard it, or seen it in someone else, but somehow, in time, it hit us as real and true and meaningful.

It usually does not happen overnight. It tends to happen upon reflection.

If this is true, then as time rolls on we should slowly be getting wiser and wiser.

And if we back up, and acknowledge that all such learning has been initiated and impressed upon us by Jesus Christ, then as time rolls on, we should be growing wiser and wiser spiritually.

I write this to say that, as a general principal, the older we get the wiser we get.

There is much foolishness in thinking, and worse in championing the “wisdom” of youth. What does a twenty-three year old know about being married for fifty years? What does a eighteen year old know about being committed to a job for a decade? What does a fifteen year old know about being faithful, through thick and thin, to a church for twenty years? Just how much wisdom does a twenty-eight year old know about raising a teenager?

They might have head or book knowledge, but have they done it?

Wisdom, the kind of wisdom that we base our life and jobs and most meaningful relationships upon is learned by experience, slowly and reflectively. When we turn and seek wisdom, we should first seek it from those who have lived life, who have both book knowledge and life knowledge.

From their wisdom we get can get much wisdom.

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