If you are a Christian, then it should already be part of your everyday life to actively and intentionally pursue wisdom. Unlike certain other virtues named throughout the Word of God, wisdom is one of those things you can spend a lifetime working on and still be left with progress yet to be made at the end of the day. Why is this? To put it in just a few words, wisdom is not perfectible. There will never be a time in your life when you can sit down, kick back, and relax, knowing you are perfectly wise with nothing yet to be learned. For a person to even think they’ve arrived at this place is a sign of pride and foolishness, not wisdom and godliness.

“Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.”

                                                              -Proverbs 9:9

Rather than glorying in our spirituality or perceived wisdom, God instructs us in Jeremiah 9:23-24 to glory in the simple truth that we know Him as our Lord and Savior. The fact is, even the wisest of Christians are fools when they contrast their limited understanding of things to the immense wisdom of Almighty God. At the end of the day there will always be more knowledge to attain and apply to our life which, in itself, is the very definition of Godly wisdom: the practical application of knowledge. When we begin to understand that wisdom requires knowledge and that there is always an abundance of knowledge yet to be learned, we will finally begin to comprehend the fact that God is the only one Who is truly wise, and that His wisdom stretches far beyond the capacities of our frail, human minds.

“Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof?”

                      -Job 38:4-6

When Job began to question the way God worked because it contradicted what he thought should be happening, the Lord quickly reminded him that he didn’t know as much as he thought he did. He was shown that many questions are answerable only by God Himself and that we are foolish to try and understand every aspect of the way He works. In reality, true wisdom requires us forfeiting the idea that we will ever understand everything and humbly seeking whatever wisdom God may grant us. As it was written in James 1:5, “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him.” Without a doubt, those who ask shall receive; those who seek will find; and those who knock will be welcomed in (Matthew 7:7).