Grains of Wisdom – grains 1 to 45
May 27, 2016
GRAINS OF WISDOM
No one is born wise, the box in the brain labeled “wisdom” is empty. It depends on each of us how we fill it in, when and if at all. The Word of God tells us very clearly about the importance of wisdom and that as follows: ” Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.” (Pr. 4:7). This is the Word of God for each of us, but it is also the word of man who had received that wisdom from God, because he asked for it from God (1Ki. 3: 9-12 // Jam. 1: 5, 6). It was Solomon, the son of King David. This wisdom is recorded in the 31 chapters of the Book of Proverbs. But there is also the wisdom that a man himself had collected during his lifetime, either from his own experience or from other wise people. This wisdom was usually collected in the so-called. “folk’s sayings”, or proverbs. Thus, there are God’s proverbs that come to us directly from the Spirit of God and His infinite Wisdom, and the folk’s proverbs that come to us through our life experiences, because He created man with certain degree of intelligence, which has the ability to discern what is wise and what is stupid. Whether man has acquired and collected these God’s and the human proverbs through his degree of intelligence into his own life, and also governs his life by them – this is a very big question, and everyone would have to answer it for himself. I collected a few that have come to me through my life experiences with the Lord, and some are directly quoted from the Word of God.
The following grains of wisdom, in my view, are to be read at least 5 times to achieve their depth and thus their deeper meaning:
- You can not be what you are not; but you can become what you are not … (if you want).
- People will remember you only for two things: the problems you solved, or those you have created.
- Do not look where you still are; start to look where you could be.
- You never change your faith until it ceases to produce what you want.
- All people fail and fall; only Overcomers get up again and continue.
- If you want something in life you’ve never had, you must do something you’ve never done.
- The problem that makes you most angry is the problem that God has assigned to you to solve.
- People form their life habits; their habits then form their future.
- The man who can not be persuaded of anything by anyone does not know himself why he has so decided in his will.
- Even the most stubborn donkey can be pushed to the stream, but no one can force him to drink.
- You can not change anything that you are not willing to confront.
- The crisis always comes with the curve of change … (that is, at every curve in our lives).
- Satan’s popular entry point into your life is always through someone who is close to you.
- The strongest weapon of Satan is deception, because no one who is deceived knows or can find out that he is deceived; someone else has to tell him, show him or bring him to it.
- Losers focus on what they are going through, what they are experiencing; warriors focus on where they are going.
- Pain is not an enemy, it is merely a proof that man exists … (it often could have saved us from premature death)
- When God wants to bless you, He puts a person into your life. When Satan wants to destroy you, he puts a person into your life … (the question is whether you can tell the difference between the two and act accordingly).
- Every act of obedience shortens the distance to the miracle that you want to achieve … (if you have one).
- Fighters make decisions that create their future. Losers make decisions that keep their present state, which personally suits their character.
- You will never overcome what you refuse to hate.
- What you fail to rule in your life, will finally rule you.
- What you can tolerate, you can never change.
- Nothing is as bad as it seems at first sight.
- Patience is a weapon that forces deceit to show itself over time.
- One hour in the presence of God discovers every flaw in your most carefully thought out plan.
- Those who do not respect your calling and responsibility disqualify themselves for a relationship with you.
- The continuing fight is the proof that you have not been defeated.
- Never discuss your problem with any one, who is unable to solve it.
- Failure is not an event, but a view, an opinion, the conviction about things; the same applies to success, which over time could show itself to be a failure.
- Anger is a birthplace for new solutions … (passivity has never solved anything in life, nor can ever solve).
- A state of warfare always surrounds the birthplace of a Miracle.
- Dissatisfaction is always a catalyst for change.
- When you change the focus of your concentration, you also change your feelings and get a new perspective on things.
- You will never reach the royal palace while you speak as a peasant.
- What you will cause to happen to others, God will cause to happen to you.
- If a fool would suddenly discover that he is a fool, he might not bear it in his soul; therefore, God has a Divine patience and gives him a lot of time to find it out more slowly.
- Man is today ready for anything – but not for tomorrow – because he does not know what will be; and who will tell him, what will be? (Ecc. 8: 7)
- It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise man, than for a man to hear the sweet song of fools (Ecc. 7: 5).
- Do not be wicked or foolish, why should you die prematurely? (Ecc. 7:17).
- Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner is able to destroy a lot of good (Ecc. 9:18).
- For everything there is a season, a convenient time, also for the mutually opposing things (Ecc. 3:1-10).
- The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding has created the heavens (Pr. 3:19).
- Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and depart from evil (Pr. 3: 7).
- Happy and blessed is the man who finds wisdom and acquires understanding. She is a tree of life to those who lay hold upon her; happy and blessed is he who keeps her (Pr. 3: 13, 18).
- The wise shall inherit glory; but shame shall be the legacy of fools (Pr. 3:35).
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