How wise are you?

 

How wise are you?

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Title: How wise are you? ------------------------------ Date: 06/30/2000
Keywords: "smart" "stupid" "wise"


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Passage: Proverbs 30:2-3*

2. I am the most ignorant of men; I do not have a man's understanding.

3. I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One.

Question

How wise do you think you are?

 

Practical help

Sometimes nothing is a lot.

If you're struggling with porn, for example, realizing you lack the understanding and skill to flee smut actually gives you more strength to resist it than if you had the wisdom of a thousand Christian sex therapists.

For such irony is the way biblical wisdom works. It starts by humbly acknowledging your limitations (e.g., lack of gumption to say no to porn). This admission prepares your heart for accepting strategies from God's Word.

So if you're tired of relying on your own smarts to kick a porn habit, try admitting, like the author of today's passage, that you're stupid. It could help make you smarter and stronger in your resistance to porn.


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