THE SOURCE OF TRUTH, KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, AND UNDERSTANDING By Deirdre [July 27, 2013 8:27 AM EST] GOD IS THE TRUTH; AND KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING COME FROM GOD. THE BIBLE STATES THIS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT TESTIFIES TO IT. “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and THE TRUTH, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” – John 14:6 So if we want the truth we must seek Jesus, as Jesus is Truth. Likewise we must turn to God for wisdom, knowledge and understanding. Contrary to the aggrandizement of self; wisdom, knowledge and understanding do not originate within us; wisdom, knowledge and understanding are spiritual gifts that come into our heart and soul from outside of us. We know that wisdom, knowledge and understanding are exterior to us, because the bible teaches us that these spiritual gifts are something that we seek and acquire! “For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;” - Proverbs 2:10 ESV “An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.” - Proverbs 18:15 ESV So now that we know wisdom, knowledge and understanding come from outside of us, exactly where do they come from? Wisdom, knowledge and understanding come from God, through the Holy Spirit! "For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit," - 1 Corinthians 12:8 “For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;" - Proverbs 2:6 “If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.” – James 1:5 "And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord" - Isaiah 11:2 Now having said that, there is this thing called human understanding. But the Bible teaches us that we should not rely on human understanding because human understanding is flawed. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.” – Proverbs 3:5 We know human understanding is flawed, simply by looking at the actions of Adam and Eve. We know the understanding of Adam and Eve was flawed because they did not understand that they were being deceived by Satan. If Adam and Eve’s understanding had not been flawed, then they would have understood that they were being deceived by Satan, and they could have averted sin and saved us all from punishment. But that did not happen. The presence of innocence in Adam and Eve flawed their understanding, but there are many reasons why human understanding is flawed. Here is another example … Today we understand that Satan is a deceiver, but even with this knowledge, human understanding is still flawed. Human understanding will always be flawed because we can never think like God, because we are not God. “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” – Isaiah 55:89
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