In today's podcast, we're going to stir up our affections for God by looking at his wisdom.

Not only is our God wise, but he longs to share his wisdom with us as his people.

Living in true wisdom, true perspective, knowing how to order our desires and our days,

is one of the real keys to living and abundant life. May we praise God for his wisdom and ask

him with boldness and confidence to share that wisdom with us today. Welcome to the First 15 podcast.

Your Heavenly Father is perfectly wise. Everything he does is perfect. Every thought and idea he has is filled with complete wisdom.

What's more, through the Holy Spirit, you have access to that wisdom.

James 1.5 says, if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given to him.

Your God loves you so much that he's just

waiting to bestow on you his vast wisdom. He never wants you to suffer from a lack of knowledge.

So often we're taught that God only reveals to us what we absolutely have to know right

before we need to know it. But that's not the truth

of Scripture. James 1.5 proves that. Your God gives his wisdom generously. Not only is the wisdom

of God given to you generously, if you ask, but it also has with it incredible attributes.

James 317 says the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason,

full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

The wisdom of God will do incredible things for your life.

With it comes the very nature of God. James 317 could just as easily have said that God is pure,

then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

So when you receive the wisdom God bestows upon you, you're receiving many of the attributes

of God Himself.

The wisdom of God is unlike any other way of thinking you'll find.

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