Wisdom is not knowledge.

Wisdom is not knowledge because we can know about something and still not wisely discern the way to go or to walk.

The other day, I set out for my daily walk, deciding on that particular day to walk in a new direction, one I had never before walked.  After I laced up my florescent yellow walking shoes, I stepped on the sidewalk and turned right. I knew where I was at that moment, as I began my walk, but ten minutes later, I realized that I was totally lost.

Knowledge says go this way, but then when we walk that way, thinking we are walking in the right direction, wisdom reveals how we have been walking wrong all along.

That morning, I first walked up the street I did not know and turned left, walking down another street that remained unrecognizable.  ‘I will see something I know,’ I thought,  ‘because this town cannot be so big that I find myself LOST, surely.’

However, that morning, as I walked down street-after-street, I saw buildings new to me & homes I did not recognize.

In the back of my mind, I knew I could turn around, retracing my steps, going completely in the opposite direction from which I was currently going, hoping to retrace my steps & eventually return to the place from which I began, but therein lay the problem.

This town was an unknown town (to me) with street and business names that were not recognizable to me.

• I was in a foreign place.
• I was walking toward an unknown destination.
• I was thinking but not understanding.

All that I currently KNEW was not enough to wisely discern the way I need to walk in order to safely arrive at my daughter’s home.

Nothing looked familiar.  When this occurs, our insides can become ‘squishy’ feeling as our brain screams—YOU’RE LOST!

YOU’VE REALLY DONE IT THIS TIME!  WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO NOW?!

The truth about walking—

When stepping forward, a person can either step, walking in the direction he is stepping, continually going toward the unknown—OR—

The person can turn, going in a new direction, walking toward that which can be seen, even though the destination may not be fully understood.  As the person steps, that new direction leads to the right path the person needs to go to get home.

As we step forward in our life-walk, we have a choice:

Walk the familiar path we know, going as we’ve always gone—OR—

Walk forward, traversing into a new territory, walking where we’ve never before walked.

That’s the way it is with faith.

One moment, we are without faith, knowing but not knowing, unaware of the trueness of Jesus—Lost.

Then we see, we know, we believe in Jesus and what He accomplished on the cross, and we become aware of the Savior as He causes us to become—Found.

Wisdom of the world says FAITH is narrow-minded blind & complete craziness.

BUT

Divine wisdom says FAITH is extraordinary, the demonstration of God’s love, mercy & His Amazing Grace.

Every person alive is called to be in a relationship with God.

Every person alive is called from conception to Walk in a New Direction.

This relationship, this new direction can only come through JESUS—GOD’S ONLY SON—who causes everything that’s upside down—to turn right-side up!

This divine wisdom we embrace seems foolish to the watching world.

BUT TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN JESUS & WHAT HE HAS DONE ON CALVARY’S CROSS—

This divine wisdom is fully understood as God’s Perfected Love.

Maybe as you read, you wonder—

• Did I make it to my destination?
• Did I finally arrive at my daughter’s home?

Yes.  Yes, after walking 11,000+ steps, I did find my way home—

BUT ONLY AFTER REALIZING—I was totally LOST in my LOSTNESS

AND ONLY AFTER SEEKING—the guidance of a GPS.