Sound Wisdom

"He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly."

Proverbs 2:7

Sound wisdom is different from ordinary wisdom. Sound wisdom is reserved for the righteous whereas wisdom is reserved for all who seek it. The righteous people are those who are made righteous through the Blood of Jesus Christ and who excel the Pharisees and the scribes in righteousness (Matt.5:20). The more righteous we are, the sounder wisdom we get. A child of God can get wisdom as he seeks it. But sound wisdom is meant for a child of God who walks uprightly. The Lord is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. If we do not walk uprightly according to the standards of righteousness as expected of us from our Lord, we cannot get deliverance from the evil one. These days, many people of God think that they can get deliverance from their diseases, if they simply believe in the Blood of Jesus Christ without walking uprightly. The Blood of Jesus continues to cleanse us from all our unrighteousness if we confess our sins after true repentance and then decide to walk uprightly. The Blood of Jesus Christ cannot be invoked as a magic formula as in the Arabic fable of the Alladin Lamb when you continue to live in sin. The Lord cannot protect you from the attacks of any terrorist if you do not walk uprightly. The Lord cannot protect you from any accident if you do not walk uprightly.

We need sound wisdom to be a witness in the midst of the ungodly nations. Sound wisdom makes us a different and peculiar nation. The key to the sound wisdom is righteoueness. You cannot get sound wisdom by memorizing the whole Bible. Of course, you will gain sound knowledge of the Bible. However, you will get sound wisdom only if you walk uprightly or righteously according to the counsels of God. These days, we have very good Bible colleges to impart us merely Biblical knowledge but the Bible teachers do not practically teach us on righteousness through their own lives. Jesus taught His disciples through His own life as He stayed with them. His disciples learnt to walk uprightly from the life of Jesus Christ. According to the Gurukul system of teaching in India, the student as a disciple has to stay with his teacher, guru, and to learn from the latter's life. It is the desire of my heart and also in accordance with the vision given to us by the Holy Spirit that we strive to establish prophetic schools all over the world. The teachers of these schools would stay with their students to teach on righteousness through their personal lives.

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