Benefits of Wisdom (8): Value
Benefits of Wisdom (8): Value Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding; for her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, and her gain than fine gold. – Proverbs 3:13-14 The Scripture says the person who finds wisdom is fortunate...
Benefits of Wisdom (7): Increased Prudence
Benefits of Wisdom (7): Increased Prudence That He would show you the secrets of wisdom! For they would double your prudence. - Job 11:6 Another benefit of wisdom is its ability to make you more prudent; or – to put it in the exact words of the Bible – it will double...
Benefits of Wisdom (6): Divine Favour
Benefits of Wisdom (6): Divine Favour Only may the Lord give you wisdom and understanding…that you may keep the law of the Lord your God. - 1 Chronicles 22:12 We are back to our series on the benefits of wisdom. As the passage above suggests, wisdom helps us to keep...
Benefits of Wisdom (5): Privileged Companions
Benefits of Wisdom (5): Privileged Companions How happy your people must be! What a privilege for your officials to stand here day after day, listening to your wisdom! - 1 Kings 10:8 (New Living Translation) Another benefit of wisdom is crystallised in this passage:...
Benefits of Wisdom (4): Prestige
Benefits of Wisdom (4): Prestige When the people of Israel heard about King Solomon’s decision, they respected him very much. They saw he had wisdom from God to make the right decisions. - 1 Kings 3:28 (NCV) As seen in this passage, one of the benefits of wisdom is...
The Dance of A Lifetime – A True Story
In that instant, I realized how easy it is to give a bit of yourself every day. You may never know how much each gesture may mean to someone else. I tell this story as often as I can, and when I do, I urge others to look out for their own “boy under the tree.”
Three Guests
Three Guests
A woman came out of her house and saw three old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them.
She said, “I don’t think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat.”
“Is the man of the house home?” they asked.
“No”, she said. “He’s out.”
“Then we cannot come in”, they replied.
Benefits of Wisdom (3): Creative Genius
Benefits of Wisdom (3): Creative Genius. Another benefit accruable from wisdom is the genius to create items of great value. The entrance of wisdom in the mix enhances your natural or acquired skills, thereby facilitating the creation of value in terms of product or service.
Benefits of Wisdom (2): In Demand
Benefits of Wisdom (2): In Demand. Another benefit of wisdom is that it makes you a hotcake. From our reference passage, we see that Solomon became a widely sought after person – a hotcake – overnight, as kings and prominent figures all over the world came in tow to seek his audience. Note that they did not come to see his face just for the fun of it, nor did they travel through lands, seas and deserts merely to see his palace, they came with deliberate intent from their different nations to seek his counsel on various matters and be acquainted firsthand with his famed wisdom.