Author and Bible teacher Nancy Lee DeMoss says that when it comes to wisdom, you have a choice to make.

You can walk in the world's wisdom and be foolish to God.

Or you can walk in God's wisdom and be considered foolish by the world.

But you can't have it both ways.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Monday, August 17th.

Who gets to decide what wisdom means, successful business people, academics, intellectuals?

Well, Nancy's going to look to the Bible for a true definition, continuing in the series The Way of Wisdom.

I've spent a lot of time over the past several weeks reading the book of Proverbs, which, by the way, is something I would recommend to you.

If you don't read it on a regular basis, periodically to just dig in and learn wisdom from the book of wisdom, the book of Proverbs.

But I've been asking myself, as I'm reading, what is wisdom? What does it

look like? What distinguishes it from foolishness? And the book of Proverbs is a good place to

help us with that. But what I'm seeing is that wisdom is really learning to see all of life

from God's point of view. Seeing every season and circumstance and situation of life as God sees it.

That's wisdom.

Now, that's why we have to ask God for wisdom because we can't see what he sees.

We don't know what he knows.

So we have to ask him to help us see life as he sees it.

Wisdom is orienting and ordering every area of my life around God,

around his ways, around his word. It's aligning everything in my life, my thought life, my speech,

my relationships, my work, my worship, my play, everything, my health, my

exercise, my diet, everything I do, it's ordering it around God. It's really living a

godly life so that every part of my life is aligned around God and his word. It's living life

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