Wisdom is the proper response to a situation which may or may not offer the obvious virtue needed at the moment. Like it or not, we live in a liminal time. In other words, we live in a time (and have been ever since humanity was driven from the Garden of Eden) which is fraught with an unsettled quality or feature. For anyone to conclude what might be the right thing to do in any given moment, especially in the unstable environment in which we currently find ourselves, is not even possible without some sort of absolute grounding from which we could firmly stand.
Genesis 1-3
Unfortunately, the ground from which humanity was made has been cursed since the first two humans had decided to seek wisdom from a source that was not the Creator Himself. It is important to understand (very important I might add) that we must avoid at all costs in making the error in thinking that humanity itself was ever described as being cursed in Genesis 3. Adam was not made from a cursed ground in Genesis 2. The ground was cursed later, after the “adam” had already been formed and vivified by God. Remember, Adam was made from a ground which had already been labeled by God (along with everything else that He had created) as being “very good” in Genesis 1.
Conclusion
The foundation from which we stand is cursed, not us. Therefore, we need a different foundation from which might we gain the wisdom needed to rightly navigate the vacillating seas upon which we live.
Jesus is that foundation:
1 Peter 2:7 (Voice) – To you who believe and depend on Him, He is precious; but to you who don’t, remember the words of the psalmist: The stone that the builders rejected has been laid as the cornerstone—the very stone that holds together the entire foundation…
Godspeed, to the brethren!
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