wisdom teeth don't make you wiser

I am not much of a video game player but when I’m playing a video game or watching a movie, part of me is always aware and thinking that everything in the story was created by someone (or a team of people). The writer, the director, the actors, they have decided together who the people are, where they will go, what they will do, how the story will turn out. What difference does it make? Well, in a really involved video game, getting inside the head of the people who wrote the code helps you figure out how to beat the game. In a movie, keeping up with what the director is up to helps you figure out what he’s trying to say. The same is true with God!

Read Proverbs 8: In this passage, Wisdom delivers some BIG news: She was there “in the beginning.” God used her as a “craftsman” when He was designing and implementing all of creation. The very universe we live in was designed based on God’s wisdom.

What difference does it make? Wisdom is telling us that the better we get to know God, the more of His wisdom we acquire, the better we’ll understand the world around us. In other words, if you want to figure out how life works, Wisdom can tell you. She saw the blueprints before construction even began.  Guys, the Bible is chuck full of wisdom. You may not figure everything out, or get all the answers but if you honestly seek after wisdom, you'll have it much more figured out then people who don't.

People who reject God’s wisdom (fools) are missing out on the ancient source for understanding all of life from the ground up. They’d rather just observe the world around them and come to their own conclusions. 

Most people remember Galileo for his run-in with the Catholic church over his scientific discoveries regarding the theory that the earth revolves around the sun. While it’s true that the church pressured Galileo into suppressing his own ideas, most people don’t realize the famous scientist was a Christian committed to the truthfulness of the Bible He didn’t feel any of his discoveries contradicted Scripture. He said: “God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.” He understood that those two things go hand in hand.

Get to know the mind of God and his wisdom through the Bible, and get to know Him better through observing His Wisdom-fueled craftsmanship in nature. That’s the path to figuring out both the big picture and how to work the controls of your own life today.