Worldly Wisdom vs. Heavenly Compassion

"You should not fool yourself. If any of you think that you are wise by this world's standards, you should become a fool, in order to be really wise. For what this world considers to be wisdom is nonsense in God's sight. As the scripture says, “God traps the wise in their cleverness”; and another scripture says, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are worthless.” No one, then, should boast about what human beings can do. Actually everything belongs to you: Paul, Apollos, and Peter; this world, life and death, the present and the future—all these are yours, and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God. (1 Corinthians 3:18-23 GNT)"

Wisdom is a tough subject, I think mainly because we are never certain by whose wisdom we should direct ourselves. We have so much information coming to us daily about different matters in our life. The Internet, television, media, books are always throwing us different perspectives on different situations and as humans we are given the choice to determine what we want our values, beliefs, opinions etc to be. But how do you choose?

In a world of information we struggle daily to sort through, process, and determine a course of thought or action. Things rarely make sense, ideas contradict themselves, and we stand there lost in our minds, emotions, and actions. Do I do what is best for me? Do I do what others want me to do? Do I do what may be easy or that may be difficult? Choices are hard, always. What is the wisest choice to make?

I often feel silly, petty, & downright overwhelmed when faced with something in my life that I find difficult when I know there are others in this world that are faced with much more difficult circumstances. I feel like I should just be grateful for what I do have because life could be worse. But then why is it that life still seems so hard?

I never feel that I am wise enough, I never know if I did the right thing, or if I just made the stupidest decision of my life. 

God calls us to love one another as he loved us. And that the greatest love is he who would lay down his life for his friend. We are so selfish, so unwilling to live a life that is difficult. Why? Because when emotions run high, we say to God, "why me?" "Why must I be the one who gets trampled on when everyone else gets a fantastic happy life?" We're so good at being fake, so good at protecting ourselves from ever truly loving another human being, because it would be foolish to love someone who didn't love you back, to love someone who rejected you every chance they got. 

But then is God foolish for loving us? Because how often do we say to him, "this rule, this suggestion you gave me in your word on how to live my life just doesn't seem to mesh with what the world does" and we reject him. And yet when someone rejects us it gives us permission to stop loving that person?? This is what the world tells us. Don't let them walk all over you, don't let them hurt you, look after yourself. God calls us to love and sometimes love makes us hurt, it definitely makes god hurt. Jesus said as he die on the cross, forgive them Lord, for they know not what they do. 

I feel this is the definition of wisdom. To forgive, to love so passionately that we can put aside our selfishness and forgive those who have wronged us. That We would die for them if it meant that they too could be in relationship with God. Let us not hate, let us love and make this world a less selfish place!