25 Wisdom Ways to Embrace As a Jesus Believer
Wisdom is the principal thing according to God’s Word — yet many believers mistakenly equate wisdom with knowledge. While knowledge gathers facts, wisdom properly applies truth to the ordering of one’s life. Scripture reveals that a wise person listens, grows, seeks counsel, and walks in spiritual understanding rather than mere intellectual accumulation. In this Light Notes teaching, we explore what the Bible says about the ways of wisdom and highlight practical characteristics every Jesus believer should embrace to experience lasting spiritual growth.
This Week: Learn why wisdom — not just knowledge — is essential for spiritual growth, and discover 25 biblical ways believers can walk in the wisdom of God.
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Light Notes:
The Ways of Wisdom
Proverbs 1:5 (NKJV) — 5 A wise man will hear and increase learning, And a man of understanding will attain wise counsel,
The Bible lays out for us in detail what are the characteristics of those who are wise.
Proverbs chapter one, for example, tells that a wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel.
Wisdom Way #1: People Who Hold the Ways of Wisdom Hear and Increase Learning
The Hebrew word ‘hear’ means an intelligent hearing often with the implication of attention, and obedience.[2. James Strong, The New Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew and Greek Words (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1996).]
This obedience is not blind obedience but an intelligent understanding of the commandments of God.
The Lord wants you to know the 'why'of His Word.
Wisdom is hidden for you, not from you.
Deuteronomy 30:11 (NKJV) — 11 “For this commandment which I command you today is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off.Psalm 51:6 (NKJV) — 6 Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.
When the Word of God says, ‘You shall not lie,’ an intelligent man understands the why of that commandment.
When the Word says intelligent, it doesn’t mean after the natural man.
In your heart, your insides, God will make wisdom known to you.
The next part of Proverbs one five is that a wise man will increase in learning.
What Does Increase in Learning Mean?
Proverbs 9:9 (NKJV) — 9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; Teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Teachers and instructors in the Word must follow this path of increased learning.
The word increase is a verb meaning it’s an active something that you do.
The word means to make an addition to; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of.
Learning means teaching, instruction or insight.
So, bounce this question of your heart.
What do I know about God today that I didn’t know yesterday?
Where is the increase in my life in the knowledge of God?
Wisdom Way #2: People Who Hold the Ways of Wisdom Attain Wise Counsel
The Hebrew word ‘obtain’ means to acquire or get something; often through one’s efforts or as compensation.
The word ‘counsel’ means something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action.
The word picture is that of the skill of the helmsman steering a boat.[3. Ludwig Koehler et al., The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994–2000), 1716.]
So, a wise believer in Jesus is a person who can guide and steer their own lives in ways that please the Father.
23 More Wisdom Ways
The wise of heart will receive commandments, Pr. 10:8.
The wise lay up knowledge, Pr 10:14, 18:15.
He captures souls, Pr 11:30.
A wise man listens to advise, Pr 12:15.
The tongue of the wise brings healing, Pr 12:18.
He who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, Pr 14:16.
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, Pr 15:2.
The lips of the wise spread knowledge, Pr 15:7.
A wise son makes a glad father, Pr 15:20.
A wise man appeases wrath, Pr 16:14.
The heart of the wise makes his speech judicious (instructive - he instructs) and adds persuasiveness to his lips, Pr 16:23.
He keeps silent and closes his lips, Pr 17:28.
He thins out the wicked, Pr 20:26.
A wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the stronghold in which they trust, Pr 21:22.
He is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might, Pr 24:5.
A wise man the wise turn away wrath, Pr 29:8.
A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back, Pr 29:11.
The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness, Ec 2:14.
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, Ec 7:4.
Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city, Ec 7:19.
A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed, Ec 8:1.
A wise man’s heart inclines him to the right, but a fool’s heart to the left, Ec 10:2.
The words of a wise man’s mouth win him favor, Ec 10:12.
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