Wisdomfied part 5-Insight and Ignorance
Prepare your Heart: Read
Luke 12:16-20. Pray about how “foolish”
you are. Do you trust in yourself or in
God? Ask Him to teach you about becoming wise in His eyes through this study.
Today’s lesson deals
with insight and ignorance. I think is
very hard to have insight into yourself and see yourself clearly. A year or so ago my Bible Study was studying
Romans 12 and the Holy Spirit used verse 3 to show me that I can’t see myself
clearly. For through the grace given to me I say to everyone amoung you not to
think more highly of himslef that he ought to think; but to think so as to have
sound judgement, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. It has become a regular prayer of mine to see
myself as God sees me, and ask Him for the ability to do so. Like this verse says, I think the more my
faith grows, the more I come to understand grace and then am able to see my own
sin, knowing He will provide for me in my weakness.
Like last week, read
each section of verses and take notes on what you learn. All references are found in the book of
Proverbs
Wisdom and Folly
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13:14
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14:24
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15:24
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16:22
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17:12
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24:7,13,14
Dealing with Fools
·
26:4-11
·
27:22
·
29:9
Discernment and Understanding
·
10:13,23
·
13:15
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14:6,8,15,33
·
15:21
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16:16
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17:24
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19:8
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20:5,12
Knowledge
·
10:14
·
13:16
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14:18
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15:14
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18:15
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19:2
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20:15
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21:11
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23:12
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24:3,4
So what verses stood out to you?
For me it was the concept of friendship.
That may be odd considering what we are studying. Here are the two verses that I read that
triggered this idea: Though you grind a
fool in a mortar, grinding him like grain with a pestle, you will not remove
his folly from him (27:22) and The
purposes of man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them
out (20:5). As I read those, I
thought of how it is impossible to change people. Not that any of you have friends that act
foolish sometimes! This week I got
frustrated with someone I love greatly, and God had to remind me to accept
where they are, and that He is the only one who can change them. This relates to the second verse for me. We need to accept our friends, and we also
need to find companions who can draw out things in us that we can’t see
ourselves. Back to insight and
ignorance. God can use other people to
help us see. And remember, if something
about someone else seems foolish to you, be careful you aren’t doing the same
thing (Matthew 7:3-5). Let your faith be
one marked with grace for others; be one who can
deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since you yourself are also beset
with weakness (Hebrews 5:2).
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