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Wisdom is knowing life has meaning even when you can't make sense of it.

Many of us are familiar with the
wisdom that Jesus offers
us through his life and teachings,
but the Old Testament
also offers us wisdom
to live full lives.

Watch these three videos to get an understanding of the type of Wisdom these books offer us.

Proverbs
is all about discovering wisdom and how you can use it to build a good life. It is a hopeful book that looks at how God has ordered a just and fair world. It points to the idea that when we do good, good things will happen to us.
Proverbs talks about the 'fear of the Lord' which is all about knowing God's definition of right and wrong and respecting it.

Job:
questions God's wisdom and justice, by telling us about Job's life journey. Job is a good man who looses everything, even though he has lived a good life. He is devastated, questions God and doubts if God is fair.
God responds by showing Job the detail and complexity of the world. Job discovers that God has a plan we will never understand and we are asked to trust God's ultimate wisdom. Job learns that God does not punish us and that in everything good and bad God is present.

There are 3 books in the Old Testament called the
Wisdom Literature:
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Job.

TOGETHER these books help us to understand God's wisdom.

Ecclesiastes
is more critical it deals with challenges and the meaning of life. Unlike Proverbs it talks about how sometimes the world isn't fair!
Life can seem random, like we don't have much control over it.
It accepts that life is beautiful and mysterious, but also confusing. Ecclesiastes looks at how we can live with a grateful heart and enjoy the simple things in life. It helps us to be humble and to trust that God has a plan!

Together these 3 books help us to understand the kind of world we are living in and how we can live a full life.
The wisdom that God offers allows us to build life where we live humbly appreciating the simple things like a good meal with family,
or the sun on our face.
Wisdom helps us to understand that sometimes bad things
happen to good people.
Wisdom teaches us right from wrong and that if we try to live good lives everyone benefits.

It's important to understand that wisdom is not the same as knowledge!
We all know someone who knows lots of stuff, but can make silly choices.
Wisdom means that first we learn, then we use what we know in life,
in our decisions, in our relationships and in our choices.

God's wisdom
is lived in the person of Jesus.
In Jesus we see how to use God's wisdom to live good lives.

Wisdom is using the knowledge you have to

LIVE WHAT YOU LEARN!

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