Wisdom

Sometimes it feels as though wisdom is one of those things you spend all of life searching for,
and in the end have only trivial fragments of it [her] pocketed away...
And our perception of her [wisdom] is like sifting sand through our human hands,
like an attempt to grasp the wind...
It is beyond the bounds of possibility,
it is nothing without HIM.

As I was thumbing through the Word this morning I fell upon Job 28...Verses 12-28 struck a chord my heart and I want to share it with you because these discoveries are not meant to be hidden,
but rather shared.

But where shall wisdom be found?
And where is the place of understanding?
Man knoweth not the price thereof;
neither is it found in the land of the living.
The depth saith, It is not in me:
and the sea saith, It is not with me.
It cannot be gotten for gold,
neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir,
with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
The gold and the crystal cannot equal it:
and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls:
for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it,
neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
Whence then cometh wisdom?
And where is the place of understanding?
seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living,
and kept close from the fowls of the air.
Destruction and death say,
We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
God understandeth the way thereof,
and he knoweth the place thereof.
For he looketh to the ends of the earth,
and seeth under the whole heaven;
to make the weight for the winds;
and he weigheth the waters by measure.
When he made a decree for the rain,
and a way for the lightning of the thunder;
then did he see it, and declare it;
he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
And unto man he said,
Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;
and to depart from evil is understanding."


WOAH.
"Behold, the FEAR of the LORD, THAT is wisdom!"
And I thought I had it all figured out.