Colossians 2:2-3 "My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."
Have you been to camp lately? I haven't and was a little surprised as I looked up at the highway sign and read a familiar name, one I see daily, Camp Wisdom. The Lord spoke to me clearly and said, "all My children need to attend this camp".
I know we all, especially as we get up in age, think we have a lot of wisdom, but I have found that I only have begun to know the wisdom of the Lord. What I have realized is that for the first part of my intimate walk with the Lord, He spent a lot of time unlearning me of the things I thought were His Word, His ways. Those things I learned through religion, and in the world. Our ways are not His ways. We can only assume to know His ways until, unless, we call on Him and submit to Him completely. Until that time we will never truly gain wisdom and knowledge.
Seek - Wait - Find are the words the Lord gave to me concerning the wisdom camp.
We must seek the Lord with all our hearts, putting aside all thoughts of self, our own desires and wants and completely dedicate ourselves to knowing the Lord. I looked up the definitions for wisdom and knowledge in Webster's and this is what I found, it was so interesting. One of the definitions for knowledge was "the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association". One for wisdom was "the ability to discern inner qualities and relationships". To gain knowledge we must be familiar with that person through experience with them or association with them. Wisdom is to be able to discern, to know their inner qualities through an experience or association with them. So in order to gain knowledge or wisdom of our God, we must spend time with Him, quality time. So it is of utmost importance that we seek the Lord, without reservation, without thought to anything but seeking Him, desiring to be with Him, to learn from His own heart what He is like, who He truly is.
Wait - here is where so many of us lose the battle; we seek and then we are to wait. Wait on the Lord for His perfect time. As we wait on Him, for those words from His heart to instruct us in His ways, He develops us in ways that we need in order to truly serve Him. We need to be willing to wait on the Lord no matter how long something takes. The Lord has reasons for having us wait different times, some things will come to us right away, some things take a good while, but the Lord's time is perfect. He knows what we need, what we can handle and just what it will take for us to get His will into our spirits, into our hearts. So we wait, and as we wait, He shows us more and more of His love, His sweet joy and His beautiful peace, we learn more of His heart.
The day comes, the glorious day comes, when we Find what we have longed for. The wisdom comes flooding into us as we find that we have become so close to the Creator of our lives, the Lover of our souls, that we can feel His heart beating as one with ours. We find that with this new wisdom, knowledge pours into us as we read His Word, as we minister to others, discernment comes from the Lord as to their true needs, and love pours through us to them. Our prayers become strengthened, and effective. Our beautiful prayer language flows from us constantly as we know that the Holy Spirit is communicating in a direct line straight to the Father's throne. We can feel the flow of language between the Spirit and the Father and the answers flow down to us, giving us the mercy and grace we were seeking, the results that we prayed for.
Knowledge and wisdom comes from a true, deep, honest relationship with the Lord, our Father, when we seek to know Him, to know His heart, to commit ourselves to Him to have His will done in our life. When we desire to spent time with Him, giving Him all our love, worshiping Him for just Who He is, our Beloved Father.
You are wondering if this camp is expensive? No, the tuition has been paid in full. Our Savior paid the price at Calvary, completely, when He shed His blood to redeem us and give us access to the Father, to have this beautiful relationship with Him. There is a complete road map available to all that wish to attend.......the Word of God gives all the directions, all the encouragement to keep on the right road, and it tells of the rewards of finding wisdom and knowledge of our God.
03-14-12
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