FBCHS Bible Study -"WISDOM FROM ABOVE"

WISDOM FROM ABOVE

James 3:13-18

. Christians need to pray with an earnest desire to know and do the will of God. They need to earnestly desire that God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven, so they pray for God to help them do His will on earth as it is in heaven. Christians must have an ambition to pray and live with submission to Jesus Christ. They must maintain an open mind and heart to receive the Spirit’s leading and avoid self-centeredness and other sins. If a Christian is filled with the Spirit, there is no room for bitter envy or selfish ambition in their hearts.

James continued to exhort the people in the assembly who wanted to be teachers of the Word (James 3:1). It is not enough simply to stand before the people and say words; you must have something to say. This is where spiritual wisdom comes in. Knowledge enables us to take things apart, but wisdom enables us to put things together and relate God’s truth to daily life.[1] All of us have heard preachers and teachers who say many good things, but who somehow miss the heart of God’s message and fail to relate truth to everyday life. It is this kind of “knowledge without wisdom” that James is writing about. He is contrasting true wisdom and false wisdom in three different aspects.