Your Moment at the Well
The Lord’s insight. Sometimes we don’t have the sense to know we do not have common sense!
Proverbs 3:5: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.
Job 13:5: Oh, that you would be silent. It would be your wisdom.
I believe we are living in a time where common sense is not so common at all. We don’t have to look very far to find instances of someone doing something that doesn’t make any sense at all. Our political leaders are at odds over the question of requiring identification as a basis for voting in our elections.
Why would this be a question at all? Why does it seem like many of us live with a lack of common sense? God gave Solomon wisdom and knowledge that was uncommon to others at the time. Why don’t we all have such wisdom and knowledge? Is it a flaw in our creation that some of us seem to have common sense and others do not?
Why will so many of us join protests about things we know nothing about? Can you count the number of stupid decisions and choices you have made in your lifetime? On social media, why do we comment on things said by people we don’t know who don’t know us?
We are drawn to things that are noisy; we are drawn to things that stick out; we are drawn to things that seem wrong; Why is this?
Job 13:5 points out and encourages us to quiet down our lives. It is in the quiet life that wisdom and common sense can be developed and seen. It is in the quiet of life that we can learn from the things we learn. It is in the quiet of life that we can see within ourselves the presence of or the lack of common sense.
But this doesn’t answer the question why are we made the way we are? Proverbs 3:5 even warn and encourages us to trust in the Lord more than to trust in ourselves. Wisdom and knowledge and understanding are available to us all. But not all of us seek it because we are more comfortable living our lives in our own ways.
Common sense is the wisdom to live with the understanding that our own ways of living is not sufficient for us to live the way that is best for us. God does not force us to ask for or to have His wisdom and knowledge because He loves us. He gives us the freedom to ask for His wisdom and for His knowledge.
Free will is the essence of God’s love for us and the strength of His relationship with us. God wants us to use our free will to seek His wisdom and His knowledge as we live our lives here on earth. Solomon freely asked and God gave to him freely.
The reason so many of us do seemingly do not have the sense to know we make no sense in the things we do and say is because we refuse to use our free will to free ourselves from our own wills. God will never force you to be wise and understanding. But He will gladly give you wisdom and understanding when you choose to seek that from Him.
You will know if you have common sense or not when you learn to use your free will to ask the Lord for the thing’s others believe He should force us to have. The Lord will never force you to think the way He does. But when you ask Him to change your thinking, He will not only do that, but He will deepen His relationship of love with you because you empty yourself of the bonds of living by your own will.
When you use your free will to force yourself to seek what He will never force you to seek, He will bless you with common sense that is uncommon to others. You will be blessed in how you live and others will be blessed because you are blessed.
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