Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson,

and we are here to talk about tips and strategies that we can employ to help us grow in our faithfulness to God to reach new heights to excel still more.

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So today we will be talking about a short little phrase that has large implications.

Be wise, small.

I want to begin by breaking that down just a little bit. Be wise.

We know that the Bible talks a lot about wisdom. It's really important for the Christian.

In fact, you can go all the way back to the days of Solomon and how much he writes about wisdom in the book of Proverbs.

There are tons of blessings in your life waiting to be had if you will use more wisdom. In the New Testament, we're taught to grow in this wisdom about Jesus.

In James chapter 1, we're taught that if you lack it, and at times we all do, that you need to

ask God for wisdom, and he will richly supply it to you. But what is

wisdom? What does it mean to be wise? Well, there's this fellow at our church, brother Bob Paul.

He's in his early 90s, and just about every time I use the word wisdom in a class or sermon,

he comes up to me afterwards with his grin on his face, and he says,

Chris, you know what wisdom means, and I say, yes, sir, and he comes back and says, it's knowledge

applied. And I think that is a terrific way to define wisdom and what it means to be wise. It means

I know that something is right. I can identify that it's right, and I'm going to

actually put that wisdom into place in action. You know, here's the thing about knowledge. Most of us have

quite a bit of it, if you've been around long enough. Some of us are raised among God's people

learning the truth or hearing sermons. Some of us read the Bible

just about every day. Most of us have lived long enough in this life to learn all kinds of

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