1,000,000 steps to Wisdom
A thought to ponder with me as we start the new year seeking more of the wisdom of God. If wisdom is a staircase of 1,000,000 steps, the first step comes to us out of a familiar Proverb: “The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.”
Here is a vision that God gave me this week in a time of intense revelation. The first step is the beginning of wisdom. However, the next 999,999 steps are about the love of the Father shared with us by Jesus’ closest friend, John— “Perfect Love cast out all fear.”
The first step to God is when we approach him for the first time without knowing of His unrelenting love. We meet the God of the universe with our filthy sins. That is a place of fear until the arms of the Father reach down and receive us with the power and rush of the Love of the universe, and we are introduced to the gift of salvation and amazing grace through Jesus. At that moment, it all changes and the next 999,999 steps of the pouring into us of wisdom from God is one of growing in the depths and knowledge and security of His love— where true wisdom is fueled. It takes all the remainder of our wisdom journey even to get close to understanding that. Thus, the next 999,999 steps.
“Perfect love cast out ALL fear…”
- 1 John 4:18
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