"....From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus." (2 Tim 3:15)
I'm sure you know of the definition that wisdom is not how "smart," i.e., intelligent a person is, but what he does with what he has and knows. Too many people cop out of life by saying, "Well, I'm not just that smart. I really don't understand all of this." This is similar to the excuse of the wicked, lazy steward in Matthew 25. I do nothing because I am nothing. You know what was his end.
The verse following our text is an oft quoted passage of mine, "All Scripture is God-Breathed." But it is necessary to read on. The "God-Breathed" Word "is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work." I ask, What more could you possibly desire from life, "teaching, rebuking, correcting and training,.. thoroughly equipped...."? Wanting more is only to satisfy a sagging ego which really just wants to outsmart the callers on Rush or Hannity.
"Wise for salvation"--- this is not just "wise for" getting saved. This is "wise for" survival. Biblical salvation is so much more than most evangelicals consider. Biblical Salvation, the "salvation [which comes] through faith in Christ Jesus," imparts "deliverance, preservation, healing, peace, aid, victory, prosperity, rescue," and here is a popular word which the New Age people have hijacked, "wholeness." Make no mistake, the only way I can acquire the wisdom for "so great a salvation," is giving myself continually to the "God-Breathed" Scripture, the Word of God Himself, Christ Jesus.
I am not against conferences, "other" books, and great teachers. But they cannot promise you, "Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." That promise alone comes from our Lord Jesus Christ, the "God-Breathed" Word Himself. In Jesus and His "Breath" is that which Peter describes as, "everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness."
Father, in Jesus' Name, keep me from a "wisdom" which just satisfies my ego. Keep me in You, Lord Jesus, "who became for us wisdom from God...." Amen.
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