Jerry Mercer

Wisdom’s Partner, Humility

Humility is a partner with and privy to Wisdom, they share the most important qualities of life and wellbeing.

Proverbs 22:4 says, “Humility is the fear (or reverence) of the Lord; its wages are riches and honor and life.” Compared or paired with Wisdom as stated in Proverbs 3:16, “long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.”

Both humility and wisdom provide us with long life, monetary prosperity, and honor.

Long-life would be a totally satisfying, productive, and fulfilling high quality of life, nothing missing and nothing broken.

Shalom means; nothing missing, nothing broken, it is having an unbreakable promise that everything supplied for us is full and complete in Christ Jesus.

2 Peter 1:3 in the Amplified Bible says, “For Jesus’s divine power has bestowed on us (absolutely) everything necessary for (a dynamic spiritual) life and godliness, through true and personal knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.” Amen!

So long life is a wage earned for humility and is a benefit and/or promise coming out of the attainment of wisdom!

The twin enjoyment of riches that is attached to humility and wisdom would be; “God supplying all your needs according to His riches in Christ Jesus.”

This is a distribution of resources that has a whole host of implications; material needs and desires being met, material blessing being supplied to others, as God directs. Physical, mental, and emotional support as found in Christ’s abundant generosity to us.

As we take on God’s generosity we fulfill the Law of Christ, which is “bearing one another’s burdens.” Galatians 6:2. This may seem like I have digressed from riches, but generosity and giving are true forms of humility and wisdom that lead to riches!

Placing others above ourselves is true humility, that isn’t thinking less of you, but is thinking of yourself less than others. Wow, that would place us in a Jesus capacity and give us an inkling of His Divine Power, which is shown in love!

Love is always giving of Himself. Amen! This giving in love would lead us into the third promise of humility and wisdom, “honor”.

Romans 12:10-20 in the NIRV translation says, “Love each other deeply. Honor others more than yourselves. Never let the fire in your heart go out. Keep it alive. Serve the Lord. When you hope, be joyful. When you suffer, be patient. When you pray, be faithful. Share with God’s people who are in need. Welcome others into your homes. Bless those who hurt you. Bless them, and do not call down curses on them. Be joyful with those who are joyful. Be sad with those who are sad. Agree with each other. Don’t be proud. Be willing to be a friend of people who aren’t considered important. Don’t think that you are better than others.”

This passage does an amazing job of capturing true humility and wisdom; it touches every part of God’s character, and shows us how to operate in wisdom, shows us how to be humble -really- not proud or disdainful.

Pride is the root of a humility disease and it removes us from God’s grace without which wisdom will elude us and a gross misrepresentation of ourselves will manifest. It will get us out of our humble and Shalomic atmosphere.

Humility keeps us free from pride and arrogance and keeps our Godly manner of being; having a submissive heart, being receptive and inclusive of others.

Humility also provides riches, honor, and long life, just like its paraclete, Wisdom who has long life in her right hand, and in her left hand are riches and honor.

Humility and Wisdom partner together to guide us out of our own will and into God’s will for our long, prosperous, and honored life.

By humility and wisdom, we receive instruction for proper conduct, care, and morality; we receive a defined meaning for our life and are given insight into our future.

A future of Godly moral conduct would entice those around us to search deeper in their own lives and hopefully find the relationship with God that humility and wisdom provides.

Let us keep our eyes on the right and left hands of Wisdom and humility, and live a long and strong life, in Christ Jesus!

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Scriptures of content and encouragement: Proverbs 22:4, Proverbs 3:16, 2 Peter 1:3, Philippians 4:19 NLT, Matthew 6:19-21, John 3:16, Romans 12:10-20 (NIRV version), Proverbs 30:11-13 and, Revelation 5:11-13 (The Passion Trans.), “Then I looked, and I heard the voices of myriads of angels in circles around the throne, as well as voices of the living creatures and the elders-myriads and myriads! And as I watched, all of them were singing with thunderous voices: “worthy is Christ the Lamb who was slaughtered to receive great power and might, wealth and wisdom, and honor, glory, and praise! Then every living being joined the angelic choir. Every creature in heaven and on earth, under the earth, in the sea, and everything in them, were worshiping with one voice saying: “Praise, honor, glory, and dominion be to God-Enthroned and to Christ the Lamb forever and ever.” Amen!

Wisdom is Open to All

Since wisdom is open to all then wisdom is available to all. Wisdom sits at the point of decision, waits at the place of beginnings.

If we are willing to adjust our lives to God’s truths she, wisdom, speaks, and what wisdom says to the open of hearts is; healing, health, authority, wealth, and power. Amen!

We must separate true wisdom from knowledge. Wisdom is not learned from textbooks and is not attained by any college degree.

Wisdom is not stored in that three pounds of gray matter we call our brain. The brain stores gained information but the heart is open to and receives wisdom.

Wisdom from above is first of all pure, and then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. James 3:17 NKJ Bible.

All of these attributes of wisdom are open to all of us who will yield our opinions and ideas, and our learned knowledge, and become subject to wisdom from heaven.

Yes, Wisdom from on high has the workings of God because Wisdom was the architect at God’s side when He created the world. Amen!

Wisdom was at God’s point of decision and was able to put into practice the workings and sayings of God! We also have this ability if we yield ourselves to the Spirit of God at the time of our decisions, if we call out to Wisdom with reverence and believing that God is always working on behalf of those who are seeking Him.

We then watch over our hearts, stay honest and steadfast, seek the right path and follow it, and stay out of hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy is feigning to be what one is not, so hypocrisy would lead to foolishness and false morality, instead of becoming wise you become a foolish pretender. At this point, wisdom is far from you and you start making poor decisions that lead to poor choices in regards to your life, health, proceedings, and your behavior.

To obtain and walk in the wisdom necessary to change behaviors we must understand the principles of wisdom because the Bible says in Proverbs that wisdom is the principal thing. Amen!

The principles of wisdom as defined in Webster’s dictionary are a comprehensive and fundamental law, a rule or code of conduct, an underlying faculty with which in lies the power and ability to walk in obedience to wisdom.

Yes, it takes obedience to yield to the Wisdom of God, and at the point of decision, we must obey to receive any change in our behavior patterns. If we never obey or change our behavior patterns wisdom eludes us and we wander along driven only by what we know and what we can accomplish.

“Wisdom isn’t open to the disobedient and prideful, their only means of survival is in themselves, and their creative power is limited to only natural occurrences produced by human knowledge.”

To me, that statement sounds like a life of defeat and a life leading to failures in all areas of life.

As we covered earlier, wisdom is not knowledge, so to get wisdom we must ask of God, and have faith that he heard our asking. Stay obedient to all we know of His Word, inquire of God at our point of decision and do whatever He says, His way!

Because Proverbs 3:16 says; “long life is in her right hand, in her left hand are riches and honor.”

In the hands of wisdom is where we find our life, prosperity, and value to God. As we honor God by keeping His Words, He will honor us with Wisdom! Godly Wisdom is open to all that are willing to yield to the Words and workings of God.

Look through the opening point of your decisions, into the heavens, and get your Wisdom, you will find your real-life right there because it’s in Him.

Our God has this Wisdom and He willingly gives it to us. So open up!

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Scriptures of content and encouragement: All of Proverbs chapter 8, James 3:17, Romans 6:13, Luke 6:46, Matthew 15:7-9, 1 John 5:15 NLT, Proverbs 3:16, and Proverbs 4:7-9 AMPC, “The beginning of Wisdom is: get Wisdom (skillful and godly Wisdom)! [For skillful and godly Wisdom is the principal thing.] And with all you have gotten, get understanding, (discernment, comprehension, and interpretation). Prize Wisdom highly and exalt her, and she will exalt and promote you; she will bring you to honor when you embrace her. She shall give to your head a wreath of gracefulness; a crown of beauty and glory will she deliver to you. Amen!

The Doubt Bout

So what are we battling in a doubt bout? How can we strengthen our chances of winning?

Understanding our foe is the first point of business, doubt first off calls the truth into question, and then it steals our confidence, ending in full-blown fear.

Yes, our doubts about a given situation that we are facing can quickly turn into an anxious concern, filled with alarm if we continue into the fear associated with our doubt.

Our foe can’t be trusted, but our heart can, as we look at the verb form of trust we see an association with believe, which is to hope or expect confidently.

Trust can become dependent on a future happening and impose a charge on our faith. We must charge or actually put a demand on our faith and this establishes the force for which to defeat our foe, doubt.

We establish a foundation for our confrontation with what is usually the unknown or the overblown force associated with our doubt, and we must ask ourselves why are we doubting and what is our doubt based on. You see doubt is not baseless just as faith is not baseless, but with faith in the Word of God, we can joust from a firm foundation.

When we try to beat doubt with our mind we become disengaged with our faith, our mind can only process what information it is given, and then it will distinguish what to trust or what to doubt by the information it is fed by our physical senses. When we feed our minds more than we feed our hearts or our spirits we leave an opening to doubts and fears, and we willingly give into our mind that is full of what we have allowed in.

All information produces after its own kind, if we look at failure, darkness, and defeat all the time we will walk in doubt and unbelief. But when we tune our hearts and spirits to seeing what God has promised us in His Word and start applying it to our situations, doubt gets out.

When we see a different scene in our future, our doubts turn into hope, and faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1). When we change who we’re looking to we will then experience what Jesus said in John 16:13 “when He the Spirit of truth comes He will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on His own; He will speak only what He hears, and He will show you what’s yet to come”. Amen!

How can we see into the future of our situations if faith is the substance of the evidence not seen? By placing a demand on our inner man and by allowing what Jesus speaks to be our guide, we walk in our future a “now” at a time! Because “now” faith is. Now, in Webster’s dictionary is defined as; a time immediately before the present and a time immediately to follow.

Wait, what? Now faith is, is immediately before the present and immediately following? Then we can live in or more likely visit that brief unseen moment called now!

When we live and walk in the Holy Spirit now moment there is no doubt, none. Our mind can’t engage in the “now” moment because it is not in the natural understanding realm.

We are truly more than conquerors in the realm of the Spirit and that is where doubt melts away.

At this point, we are not only winning rounds but we are winning the bout. You see, we really are spirits, we live in a body, and we have a soul. Amen!

When our spirit is engaged and we line up our believing to this “hole” (which is an unfilled space) this “now” moment that is in-between, immediately before and immediately following, we can really do all things through Christ who strengthens us. Amen!

At that moment we are momentarily mindless so there is no place for doubt, we are unable to doubt while in the spiritual place of our Lord and Savior. In this unfilled space, there are no negative forces because it is a God hallowed, consecrated space that can only be entered into by faith.

I am not sure if we can live in this “now” moment but I am confident that we can spend time there, now.

We can get so Word of God-focused that our spirit is stronger than our mind and we enter into Godly wisdom which as stated in Proverbs 8:12, “I wisdom, dwell together with prudence; I possess knowledge and discretion, verse 14, “Counsel and sound judgement are mine; I have insight, I have power” 17, “I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me. 18, “With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and prosperity.”

All of these powers and qualities are in and with wisdom, I believe wisdom can be found in the “now” moment, and in the “now” moment doubt must get out or I should say, “doubt is crowded out, by faith.

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Scriptures of content and encouragement: Proverbs 4:20-23,

1 Corinthians 16:13-14 NLT, John 16:13-15, Proverbs 8:12-21, and James 1:5-8 TPT, “And if anyone longs to be wise, ask God for wisdom and He will give it! He won’t see your lack of wisdom as an opportunity to scold you over your failures but He will overwhelm your failures with His generous grace. Just make sure you ask empowered by confident faith without doubting that you will receive. For the ambivalent person believes one minute and doubts the next. Being undecided makes you become like the rough seas driven and tossed by the wind. You’re up one minute and down the next. When you are half-hearted and wavering it leaves you unstable. Can you really expect to receive anything from the Lord when you’re in that condition?” Amen!

Light so Bright it Becomes Interpretive

Interpretative light has all the attributes of the divine nature of God and is distributed to man by an earnest desire to have the radiant light of the Gospel shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.

We actually walk in unfiltered light, the Light that was made flesh by God sending the Word in the flesh in His Son Jesus. The interpretive light is the ability to accept the Grace and Truth that came in the earth when Jesus appeared, All the Light, the Word, the Grace, and the Truth came “just like that”!

All this came at once and allowed us the ability to walk in maximum light that removes all doubt, and this maximum light has in it, total understanding. When you understand the light that God has lit within you, you find yourself, in Him!

We all have this light within us and it is in differing degrees, just as some stars are brighter than others, but those closest to the Source radiate the most light.

To understand interpretative light we must look at the definition of interpret; one meaning is elucidate, which means to, bring light upon, lucid means to have clear perception, and pellucid means to allow maximum light.

We can receive maximum light and then edify and encourage with maximum light, bringing an understanding to all in regards to God’s plan and purpose for life.

I received this maximum light recently in regards to, 2 Timothy 1:7 which says “God did not give us the spirit of fear, but He gave us the spirit of power, love, and a sound mind”. The interpretive light that I received on this verse was that God gave me, out of Himself, the spirit of power, love, and a sound mind, these attributes were in Him and He gave them to me!

By receiving God’s maximum or interpretive light on this verse, I immediately had peace, humility, and reverence. I also received the light or power to walk in these Godly attributes, these inherent attributes that are mine by being a son of God.

Where there is no interpretation of God’s Light, people cast off restraints; moral limits, social controls, but blessed is the one who sees the Light and responds to it. Amen!

We need Godly wisdom to pull this interpretive light from the realm of the spirit into our hearts, Godly wisdom is the key to understanding the light that is bountifully held in God’s Word.

Faith allows this light and the more faith you have in the Word of God the more light you are able to interpret out of it. We all have a measure of faith (light), (the candle of the Lord) in our spirit and by hearing and hearing the Word of God we walk in a light so bright that it becomes interpretive to us. What an amazing and enlightening spiritual system our God has bestowed upon us!

All this maximum light was brought to us by Jesus Christ, He became the Word made flesh, was given as the Light of the world, walked out His eternal plan on the earth. Prophets foretold it; apostles taught and wrote about it. Today, preachers preach it, teachers teach it, and we have all the abilities in us to receive and witness to it.

The Light in us can become so bright that people can interpret Jesus; just by the way we talk and act. Amen! This truly is the Gospel message and the great commission.

Light that overtakes the darkness and brings people to the understanding of Jesus Christ should be beaming in us and beaming out of us. So interpret and beam some light today, not a small beam as a flashlight, but a great beam as a searchlight!

Let us continue to search for opportunities to bring maximum light into situations and do it with a knowing that it will change everything it comes into contact with, for the good.

Remember that the human spirit is the lamp of the Lord, His lamp is in you and it sheds light on your inmost being, bringing an interpretive brightness to all your ways, and in all your ways acknowledge Him!

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Scriptures of content and encouragement: John 1:1-5, Psalm 84:11, Proverbs 29:18, Micah 4:2, Romans 12:3, Romans 10:17, Acts 1:8, and Proverbs 20:27, “The spirit God breathed into man is like a living lamp, a shining light, searching into the innermost chamber of our being” Amen!