Wisdom for Living I. Introduction
Background of the study (BOS) Life is like a cycle. People’s life is a daily routine. Everyone is the same in different ways and means, it might be in corporal appearances, attitudes, behaviors, but I assure every individual has their own desires and goal line in life. It is the ultimate reason why we don’t stay immobile throughout our journey no matter how hard the circumstances we experience, all of us must to move on or else we will be a failure or loser. One of the virtues that a person must possess to live a life of success is wisdom. Wisdom is a deep understanding and realization of people, things, events or situations, resulting in the ability to apply perceptions, judgments and actions in keeping with this understanding (Wikipedia.com). It often requires control of one's emotional reactions (the "passions") so that universal principles, reason and knowledge prevail to determine one's actions. Therefore person that is jam-packed of wisdom is zilch to equate to a person who’s known to be genius, attaining this important virtue makes one individual clever and successful person. Since we have perceived in this world where we live not all of smart and intelligent person were all successful in life. In every aspect of our lives we must have the power of true discernment whenever we decide in such a situation where our choices in life are tried and tested. Wisdom helps us to make good choices in life, and some of our choices would be our life or death. All people while growing up amass data / information, that one person gains to another; it may be their teacher, mother, father etc. General Psychology states that we learn in altered techniques but all of the things we learn will be deposited in our memory. Memory helps us to remember tomorrow what we learn today. It is a well-known fact that wisdom is required in order for us to have the right guidance what we ought to do or decide according to what we know or what we information stored in our brains. This study is for every man jack. All must be aware that being smart/intelligent person is not enough to subsist or to be successful in this skirmish of life we ought to be wise in the manner that no one will be mischief whatever we decide to do. * Statement of problem (SOP)
1. What is the difference between a wise person and knowledgeable person?
2. What is the wisdom according to Kingdom’s point of view? Church Age?
3. How can we obtain wisdom? * Objective of the subject (OOS) Bookworms will be able to: * Distinguish whether they are Knowledgeable or Wise being. * They will be guided and inspire to change the direction of their path and make choices to pave the road for their future. * Identify the importance of wisdom in our daily lives; in physical, social and most especially in spiritual status. * Understand what the true meaning of “wisdom” according to the knowledge of God. * Learn how to attain wisdom like what Solomon did in his time (ask mighty guidance from the Almighty Father).

* Assumption of Study (AOS) 1. As what I’ve understood, what was taught to you is what we called knowledge, theories that made beautiful sense; theories that should work in the ideal case. In actual situation not all that you have will be able to help you facing difficult situation in life; and here what we need to be wise, to have wisdom to be able to judge properly what is true or what is right. Wisdom is required for every individual to apply wisely what we have known. 2. As what Pastor says about wisdom it is the fear of the Lord (Proverbs 9:10) means you are afraid to do bad because you don’t want to disappoint or disobey His Will being; “wise as a serpent but harmless as a dove” (Matthew 10:16). Hence, wisdom according to church; wisdom is something we strive for ( Ecclesiastes 2:13 “Then I saw that there is more gain than in folly, as there is more gain in light than in darkness”. – Many passages in the “wisdom literature” Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes. And in James e.g. 3:17 “ But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.”) 3. The only vigorous in able to obtain truthful wisdom if only we ask spiritual guidance from the Almighty Father, wisdom that we should have must not only from our own cognizance. * Definition of study (DOS) * Wisdom (according to Encyclopedia) Wisdom is a deep understanding and realization of people, things, events or situations, resulting in the ability to apply perceptions, judgments and actions in keeping with this understanding. It often requires control of one's emotional reactions (the "passions") so that universal principles, reason and knowledge prevail to determine one's actions. * Wisdom (according to Merriam Webster)
Definition of WISDOM 1. A: accumulated philosophic or scientific learning: knowledge B: ability to discern inner qualities and relationships: insight C: good sense: judgment D: generally accepted belief <challenges what has become accepted wisdom among many historians — Robert Darn ton> 2: A wise attitude, belief, or course of action 3: the teachings of the ancient wise men * Wisdom (according to Book of Wisdom – Author Solomon )
THE BOOK OF WISDOM This Book is so called, because it treats of the excellence of “wisdom”, the means to obtain it, and the happy fruits it produces. It is written in the person of Solomon, and contains his sentiments. But it is uncertain who the writer was. It abounds with instructions and exhortations to kings and all magistrates to minister justice in the commonwealth, teaching all kinds of virtues under the general names of justice and wisdom. It contains also many prophecies of Christ’s coming, passion, resurrection, and other Christian mysteries. The whole may be divided into three parts. In the first six chapters, the author admonishes all superiors to love and exercise justice and wisdom. In the next three, he teaches that wisdom proceeded only from God, and is procured by prayer and a good life. * Wisdom (according to Book of Druze) The theology of Druze religion is called hikma and its main theme is that God incarnated himself in the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim, who disappeared in 1021. While most Muslims believe he died in 1021, the Druze disagree and believe that al-Hakim is awaiting to return to the world in order to bring a new golden age to true believers.
Druze believes in one God and claim that the qualities of God cannot be understood or defined by humans. Al-Hakim is worshiped in Druze religion, he is called 'Our Lord' and his cruelties and eccentricities are all interpreted symbolically.