9 July 2012; Prov 9

Proverbs 9: 10
 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom,
  and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
(Proverbs 9:10 ESV)

Wisdom is not information.
Information does not necessary help us make the decisions we need.
Information influence competence.

Wisdom is divine insights, either through observations or experience.
That observations and experience has been process, so that there are precious lessons that can be learnt, and allow cohesive decision making process.
Insights influence character.

It gives prudence to the simple - so that he does not act on impulse.

God desire us to develop insights that influence character. Insights come from hindsights.
A fool is somebody that is unwilling.

Divine insights does not comes from human information, insights or hindsights. The world does not evolve round us, or the sun but the Son.

As such, much to the insights and hindsights does not comes from human or from us, but from God. It is not human who judge to decide what is wise or unwise.

Compare: Prov1: 7
The fear of the LORD is the begining of knowledge.

Wisdom is equate with knowledge and both comes from the fear of the LORD.

Therefore, whether wisdom or knowledge is comes from not self, but a reference to God and to a reverence for God. He is the one who judge and decide what is wise for us.

The fear of God is reverence for God. A wow or awe for Him.
If we fear Him, then keep His commandments. A reverence action for God. Therefore a test for us to which whether we fear God is how we walk in obedience to the commandments of God, even at times it does not make worldly or human sense.

Therefore, it is not the academic competent we can gain, or the human insights or hindsights we can seek to build our character, but God.

I pray for my family, that we will seek to fear God, to walk with Him and with Him to follow what is right - His commandments, that we will always make right decisions in the LORD. Amen.