"Knowledge is horizontal. Wisdom is vertical - it comes down from above." Billy Graham
History is replete with learned men who steadfastly refused to acknowledge the Creator of knowledge and therefore lacked wisdom. Perhaps you know someone who is intelligent yet lacks wisdom. That's because true wisdom begins with the fear of the Lord, not the knowledge of man, and consists of understanding what God's Word has to say about every aspect of life. Every day you follow God's plan makes you even wiser.
Psalm 7:10-17
My shield is God Most High,
who saves the upright in heart.
God is a righteous judge,
a God who displays his wrath every day.
If he does not relent,
he will sharpen his sword;
he will bend and string his bow.
He has prepared his deadly weapons;
he makes ready his flaming arrows.
Whoever is pregnant with evil
conceives trouble and gives birth to disillusionment.
Whoever digs a hole and scoops it out
falls into the pit they have made.
The trouble they cause recoils on them;
their violence comes down on their own heads.
I will give thanks to the Lord because of his righteousness;
I will sing the praises of the name of the Lord Most High.
1 Corinthians 12:12 - 13:13
Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.
And yet I will show you the most excellent way.
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
The 7 columns of Folly
Proverbs 6:16-21
1st column - verse 17 - pride
2nd column - verse 17 - lies
3rd column - verse 17 - murder
4th column - verse 18 - wicked heart
5th column - verse 18 - quick to rush to evil
6th column - verse 19 - false witness
7th column - verse 19 - stirs up dissension
The 7 columns of Wisdom
James 3:17
1st column - pure
2nd column - peace-loving
3rd column - considerate
4th column - submissive
5th column - full of mercy and good fruit
6th column - impartial
7th column - sincere
We are American of origin Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, Africa
We are American from America
We know who we are
We know who we are not
We know what we are
We know what we are not.
We are who God Almighty says we are
We have what God Almighty says we have.
We have the mind of Christ Jesus
We have the character of His wisdom,
We believe,
We think what we believe.
Love from above
from our hearts to your hearts.
To save
To secure
To heal (God's way)
To govern those who govern
To train governors for tomorrow,
To reign (3 times - 1 for each ear & check all is OK)
For the glory of God Almighty
Considering Jesus Christ.
Humanity has left most of us including our education and most of the domains of realities.
10 - 1 = 9
100 - 1 = 99
1000 - 1 = 999
10 power n - 1 = 9999....9 [n(9)]
(-) x (-) = (-) not (+)
Gravity 9.8 = 10 - 0.2 = 10 - (1/5 )
It should be 10. Let us notice 12 = 10 + 10/5
That is the beginning of the pattern y = x + x/5
The formula of biblical restitution and restoration.