{"id":4491,"date":"2022-04-09T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=4491"},"modified":"2022-04-07T11:07:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T17:07:18","slug":"gods-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=4491","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We cited James 3.5 &#8211; 8 when writing last week about <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=4464\" target=\"_blank\">Will Smith&#8217;s Oscar outburst<\/a>. The tongue surely is dangerous. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness&#8230;set on fire by hell&#8230; <\/em><\/li><li><em>It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. <\/em><\/li><li><em>With it we bless our Lord and Father, and <\/em><\/li><li><em>With it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. <\/em><\/li><li><em>From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. (James 3.6 &#8211; 10, ESV, bulleted for clarity)<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the solution is right there in James 3 although the appropriate verses are usually under another heading like &#8220;Wisdom from Above.&#8221; The break causes us to miss what might be a connection to the earlier warnings about the tongue. What&#8217;s the solution? I offer it straight from scripture without further comment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom&#8230; The wisdom from above is <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>first pure, <\/em><\/li><li><em>then peaceable, <\/em><\/li><li><em>gentle, <\/em><\/li><li><em>open to reason, <\/em><\/li><li><em>full of mercy and good fruits, <\/em><\/li><li><em>impartial and sincere. <\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. (James 3.13, 17, 18, ESV, bulleted for clarity)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We cited James 3.5 &#8211; 8 when writing last week about Will Smith&#8217;s Oscar outburst. The tongue surely is dangerous. And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness&#8230;set on fire by hell&#8230; It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and With it we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=4491\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God&#8217;s Wisdom<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1ar","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4493,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491\/revisions\/4493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}