Asking God for Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding?

Do You Know Where to Find Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding.

"But do people know where to find wisdom? Where can they find understanding? For it is hidden from the eyes of all humanity. Even the sharp-eyed birds in the sky cannot discover it. But Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of where wisdom can be found.' "God surely knows where it can be found, for he looks throughout the whole earth, under all the heavens. He made the winds blow and determined how much rain should fall. He made the laws of the rain and prepared a path for the lightning. Then, when he had done all this, he saw wisdom and measured it. He established it and examined it thoroughly. And this is what he says to all humanity: 'The fear of the Lord is true wisdom; to forsake evil is real understanding.'" Job 28:20-28

The Bible speaks often of wisdom, knowledge and understanding in the same sentence. These three virtues are often ignored in the midst of the modern church. Perhaps some definitions are in order. Wisdom is knowing WHAT to do. Knowledge is knowing ABOUT something you might be ignorant of otherwise. Understanding is the ability to see and comprehend the significance of an event or process. While the much of the word boasts in its wisdom, knowledge and understanding concerning natural things, they are ignorant of spiritual things and spiritual processes. One day the disciples asked Jesus why he spoke in parables? He replied, “because to you (disciples) it is given to know the things of the kingdom of God, but to those outside it is not." Is God unfair that he has hidden spiritual things from the “wise and prudent and revealed them to babes?” No. God has simply determined that man could not discover the things of God with his own intellect, but rather reserved them for those who would seek revelation for God. Paul summed this up brilliantly when he prayed for the Ephesian Church in Ephesians chapter 1:16-18 “I…Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints….” Wisdom, knowledge, understanding and revelation is the disciple’s privilege, but it comes with the price tag of seeking, asking, believing and receiving