Wise Heart

10-26-09

Proverbs 10:8
Wise is viewed as the mastery of the art of living in accordance with God’s expectations. There are many standards by which one can live by, the wise confines themselves to what they believe God would want. This confinement is a process attained through constant commitment one decision at a time. Decisions have their way of arranging life into the image of God. The wise have acquired the skill to find these decisions and make them over and over again.

Aside from God there is no other who is wise. God has made a way for people to receive of His wisdom. The commandments are God’s provision for wisdom, any soul aspiring to be wise must aspire for God’s commandments. Those that live by and from God’s commands are considered to be wise.

Proverbs gives us one of the facts about the ability that exist with the wise heart. The wise heart has receptive power toward God’s commands. This means they have the ability to reach out, take hold of the command and bring it back in as their own. In this are three critical acts:
•the ability to reach out which signifies that the heart recognizes the command and sees it as desirable. Some hearts have difficulty recognizing God’s command and those that do recognize don’t always follow.
•the ability to take hold of the command which signifies the heart has knowledge of the command and knows what is expected. Many persons can read the Bible or hear a sermon that imparts knowledge of God’s commands but the not only hears what is said they hear exactly what is required of them.
•the ability is to bring it back to own it which signifies that the command is acceptable, they are willing to change for the command and the command is given free reign. Many persons accept the command of God but don’t accept it as being personal to their life.
The wise in heart by receiving the commandment encompasses all of these critical issues. In fact the wise heart is built to function according to god commands and lives in accordance to the demands imposed.