18 Feb Living skilfully 03: Walking in wisdom

Proverbs 4:10-27

¹⁰ Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many. ¹¹ I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness. ¹² When you walk, your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble. ¹³ Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life. ¹⁴ Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil. ¹⁵ Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on. ¹⁶ For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble. ¹⁷ For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence. ¹⁸ But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. ¹⁹ The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble. ²⁰ My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. ²¹ Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. ²² For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh. ²³ Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. ²⁴ Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you. ²⁵ Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. ²⁶ Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. ²⁷ Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

Today we are on the third sermon of our series on wisdom, “Living skilfully.” In order to live skilfully, we need wisdom. Why? Because we live in a culture of choices. Just about 50-100 years ago, life was very different. If you grew up on a farm and your parents were farmers, you would most likely be farmers as well. If you grew up in Cilegon, you would most likely spend the rest of your life in Cilegon and marry a person from Cilegon. But today it is very different. A person who grew up in Cilegon can study in Sydney, marry a person from Korea, and live in New York. We are free to be who we want to be, live where we want to live, and do what we want to do. We have choices. And every choice we make takes us somewhere. Every choice we make has consequences. That means we have never needed wisdom more than we do now because wisdom is the ability to make wise choices. Tim Keller said, “Wisdom is the ability to know what the right thing to do is in the 80% of life situations to which the moral rules don’t apply.” So, wisdom is not only knowing what is right and wrong but also the ability to make the right choices in situations where right and wrong don’t directly apply.

That’s why wisdom is absolutely crucial because most of the situations we face in life are not covered by rules. For example, should you live in Australia or Indonesia? Both of them are morally permissible. The Bible has nothing against either choice. Both are not sinful. But if you choose the wrong one, if you choose without wisdom, you could lose many opportunities that you could have. Your life would look very different. You make or break your life based on your choices. “Is this the right job for me? Should I move to a different company? Should I be planted in this church? Should I move to a different church? Should I put my child in a home school? Should I put my child in a public school? How much freedom should I give to my child at this age? Is this the right person to marry?” For all these situations, you can’t open the Bible and find bible verses that give specific answers to your situation. If you are a single guy, you pray to God, “God, please tell me the name of the girl I should marry. I am going to open my Bible and the first name I see in the Bible will be my wife.” You open your Bible and the first name you see is Jezebel. Good luck mate. So, how can we make the right choices? How can we walk in wisdom? Here is my sermon in one sentence. The Bible does not give us specific guidance for many situations we face in life, but the Bible helps us to be the kind of person who makes wise choices. Are you with me? The question is, how can we become the kind of person who makes wise choices? That’s what we are going to talk about tonight.

I have three points for my sermon: the character; the heart; the word.

The character

Proverbs 4:10-13 – ¹⁰ Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many. ¹¹ I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness. ¹² When you walk, your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble. ¹³ Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

This first point is the summary of what we have learned in the first two sermons. The Bible constantly talks about life as a pathway. Living life is likened to walking a path. Walking a path means doing something very simple, steady, and mundane. It is something you do repeatedly again and again. How do you make progress on the path you are on? Sometimes in times of emergency, you run. But the main way you make progress is through walking. You put one foot in front of another foot, and you repeat it again and again. Right foot, left foot, right foot, left foot, and so on. It’s boring. It’s steady. It is repeated. It is easy to do. It is daily repeated small activities, yet those activities get you somewhere. Your steps take you to a place you weren’t before. And the book of Proverbs offers two different paths: the path of wisdom and the path of the wicked. That’s it. There is no third path. This means there are only two possibilities at the end of our journey: we are becoming wise, or we are becoming wicked. And every moment of our lives takes us closer to our destination. That’s how character is built. Our character is determined not by big dramatic events in life but by the daily choices we make. It is the little choices we make that shape our character.

Let me give you an example. There was an article in Time magazine about an interview with a man in prison. When he was a child, his dad had a gold watch. One day this boy sneaked into his dad’s room and looked at his dad’s watch and put it on. But because it was too big, the watch fell, and the glass cracked. When his dad found his watch cracked, he gathered everyone in the house to ask who broke his watch. This little boy never confessed and even covered up his mistakes. In the interview, he said that for many years he always had the same habit of lying and covering up his mistakes and not taking responsibility. Years later he was driving his car at night and hit a little child and the child died. Instead of taking responsibility, he left the scene and ran away. He was eventually caught and sentenced to prison for most of his life. And he said in that interview that what fixed his destiny was not the hit-and-run; it was all the little choices he had been making for years. It was the habits and decisions he made to cover up his mistakes and avoid responsibility that shaped his character and ultimately set the course of his life. Do you see? It’s not the big events; it’s the little daily choices we make that fix our character and our destination. So, when we are faced with a big decision and we make the wrong decision, it exposes the fact that we have been walking on the wrong path. And in verses 10 to 13, Solomon encouraged us to walk in the path of wisdom. He wants us to take hold of wisdom and never let it go because wisdom is life.

But look at the contrast in Proverbs 4:14-15 – ¹⁴ Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil. ¹⁵ Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on. Solomon contrasts the path of wisdom with the path of the wicked. Notice what’s happening. This is interesting. At the beginning of the pathway, we have choices. We can choose which path to take. Solomon says, “Do not enter the path of the wicked. Avoid it. Turn the other way.” This means that we are in control. We can decide what to do and what not to do, right? So, Solomon is saying, “If you know you are on the wrong path, change the path as soon as possible. Don’t wait too long. You are still in control. Make the right choices.” Why? Look at what happens to people farther down the wicked path. Proverbs 4:16-17 – ¹⁶ For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble. ¹⁷ For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence. They cannot sleep unless they have done wrong, and they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble. Do you know what that is? That’s the language of addiction. That’s the language of obsession. They want to go to sleep, but they can’t sleep. Why? Because someone is doing better than them. Someone has what they want. Someone annoys them. And they need to bring that person down before they can sleep. Do you see what happened? It seems harmless at the start. It’s just little choices. It doesn’t seem to have big consequences. But those little choices lead us to a path of wickedness. They shape our characters. And before we know it, we are already obsessed. We are already addicted. Addicted to what? It’s the addiction to self. It’s the addiction to self-centredness. We always think about, “This is what I want. This is what I must have. This is what I deserved.” It’s all about, “I, I, and I.” We always compare ourselves to others and we hate it when others get ahead of us. We think of ways we can bring them down. We are obsessed with ourselves.

And look at the contrast between the destinations of the wise and the wicked. Proverbs 4:18-19 – ¹⁸ But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. ¹⁹ The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble. The path of the wise leads to a very bright place, and the path of the wicked leads to a very dark place where they do not know over what they stumble. For example, have you ever woken up in the middle of the night with the light off, and tried to go to the toilet and hit the bed frame when you walked? Let me tell you, I don’t usually cuss. Let’s leave it there. What happened? The darkness made you unaware of your surroundings. You were not in touch with reality. In the first week, we said that wisdom is about being in touch with reality. But a self-centred person is out of touch with reality. Things are going wrong in their life, but they don’t know why. Why? Because listen carefully. The more you focus on yourself, the more you centred your world on you, the less you know what’s really going on. You don’t have an accurate view of others and your surroundings because you are too absorbed in yourself. As a result, you make stupid choices, and you blow up your life.

But how do you get into this deep darkness? How do you get into this addiction? You don’t get there overnight. It’s a path. It’s the little daily choices you make. You get there one step at a time. Let me give you another example. Have you ever met someone who is always grateful? They are a delight to be around, aren’t they? They take nothing for granted. They are always thankful, even for the smallest thing. You can make 10 mistakes around them, and they are still able to point out the one thing you do well. How did they get there? Through little daily choices. Whenever they experience something good, they give thanks for it. They don’t feel entitled. Whenever they experience something unpleasant, they praise God for it. They know God is using it for their good. They appreciate every little thing they have. They know they are not owed health, wealth, families etc. And if they have it, it is a gift from God. They don’t deserve any of it. That turns them into a grateful person. Let’s talk about the opposite. What turns someone into a person filled with resentment? Every time they experience something good, they take it for granted. Instead of being grateful, they feel entitled to it. They think they deserve it. Every time they get into a conflict, they defend themselves. They blame others. They are always right. They assume the best about themselves, and they assume the worst about others. They always think of themselves before others. And when they don’t get what they want, they are frustrated, and they do whatever it takes to get it. They are addicted to themselves. And it turns them into a resentful person.

Do you see? It’s the little choices that shape our characters and fix our destinies. And making the right little choices does not come naturally. Those choices are a fight. Wisdom is not natural for us. Do you know what’s natural? Foolishness. Wisdom requires us to go against the normal way we do things. It requires us to constantly make the right little choices for years. Wisdom is acquired. Let me give you a personal example. I’m a conflict-avoider. Whenever I see a conflict, my natural tendency is to hide and pretend it is not there. Why? Because I’m a people-pleaser. I don’t like to disappoint people. But is that a wise thing to do? Sometimes. But often avoiding conflict is only making it worse. In my pastoral role, conflict is unavoidable. If I keep doing what feels natural for me and avoid conflict, it won’t be long before the church explodes. Wisdom requires me to say, “I really don’t like dealing with conflict. I don’t like putting myself in that situation. But I am going to do it for the health of the church.” As I keep doing that again and again, I slowly become wise. Wisdom is a gradual thing. It is a process. It’s a character that is built through little choices we make over a long period of time. There is no shortcut to wisdom. And the path of wisdom tells us this: God is more interested in making us the kind of person who makes wise choices than telling us the wise choice to make. Are you with me? I know what some of you are thinking right now. “Okay, that means if I want to be wise, I just need to keep making the right choices. That’s how I built my character.” Yes, and no. Yes, you need to keep making the right choices to build character, but no, it’s not that easy. It’s not that simple. You can’t build character just because you want to. This leads me to my second point.

The heart

Proverbs 4:23 – Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Here is why willpower alone is not enough to change our lives. The Bible tells us that whatever we do, flows from our hearts. The heart is the spring of life. What is a spring? A spring is not a pool. A spring is an outflowing stream of water. So, if the heart is a spring, it means that whatever we do is coming out of the heart. And this is very different from how we often think. For example, if we see a child who likes to steal, we think that the child should be educated because we think that education can change a child who likes to steal to become a good person. But often after he has a master’s degree, if he used to steal only a few bucks, after becoming a graduate he steals millions from his company. Why? Because the problem is not in his head but in his heart. That’s why Solomon tells us to keep our hearts with all vigilance. So, what is the heart? When we think of the heart, we often think of feelings and emotions. But that’s not how the Bible defines heart. Solomon does not say the heart is the spring of emotion; it is the spring of life. In other words, listen. The Bible says what’s in our hearts determines not just our feelings but also our actions, our thoughts, and the way we perceive everything. Everything in our lives comes from what happens in the heart. The heart is central to everything we do, say, think and feel. It is the control room of who we are. Look at the following verses.

Proverbs 4:24-27 – ²⁴ Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you. ²⁵ Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. ²⁶ Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. ²⁷ Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil. When our heart is right, it changes everything about us. When our heart is right, we watch over what we say (verse 24). When our heart is right, we view things rightly (verse 25). When our heart is right, we behave rightly (verses 26-27). Do you see? Everything flows from the heart. Why? Because our heart is what we believe we must have in order to have life. Our heart is where our greatest love is. There are certain things that we say, “If I have this, I have that, then I’ll be happy. Then I’ll have life. Then I know I am somebody. Then I know that I am valuable.” All of us believe there are some things we must have to have a good life. And whatever our heart loves affects everything else. I love the way Timothy Keller puts it. “What the heart loves, the mind perceives and finds reasonable, the emotions desire and find beautiful, the will does and finds practical.” So, what’s my point? Here it is. Whatever our heart loves the most determines the way we make decisions. Whatever our heart loves the most affects the way we make choices.

Let me give you some examples. If having money is not just a good thing but the ultimate thing for you, it’s the ultimate way you feel secure, the way you feel important, it’s going to affect how you make your decisions. You’re going to choose a job that doesn’t particularly fit you. You are going to choose a job based on how much money you can make out of it. As a result, you’re going to burn out and feel empty faster than other people. Or you’re going to decide to make lifestyle decisions that are not wise. You desire to have a luxurious lifestyle and to make it happen you exploit people. You might even do dishonest things to keep it up. But what you don’t realize is all those choices actually undermine your economic status. They are the most likely ways to bring about financial collapse. In other words, if money is the most important thing in your life, you will make choices that actually lose the thing you most want. All your decisions will undermine you having financial security in life.

Let’s say what your heart wants most is marriage or romance. You feel like, “Unless I’m married to this wonderful person, I will not have life. My life has no meaning. Unless I’m happily married, I’ll never be happy in life.” If that’s the most important thing for your heart, let me show you what’s going to happen. Two possibilities. First, you will be way too picky in choosing who to marry. That person must be polished and perfect, and everything has to be right because that person is going to make your whole life complete. Or second, you will be so desperate to get married you will choose somebody you really shouldn’t. And if you do get married, you will be emotionally dependent and controlling. In other words, if marriage is the most important thing to you, all your choices and decisions will undermine you being happily married.

Let me give you some more. What if more than anything else you build your life around your children? Their happiness, their success, and their love for you are the main things in your life. Do you realize what’s going to happen? You are either going to over-discipline them, you are going to control their lives because everything has to be right, and you will destroy your relationship with them. Or you will under-discipline them because you can’t stand it when they are mad at you. You spoil them and give them whatever they want. You are afraid to say no to them and it will destroy their lives. You will have unrealistic goals and plans for their lives that are based on what you think is best, instead of letting your children discover them for themselves. In other words, if your children are the most important thing in your life, the way you make choices and decisions will undermine the thing you most want. Instead of having your children, you will lose them.

What if work is the most important? “My career is the most important thing to me. I will do whatever it takes to advance my career.” Do you know what you are going to do? You are going to overwork, which means you are going to choose work over your mental health, emotional health, and physical health. You are going to choose work over relationships. You are going to choose work over family. You are going to choose work over community. You are going to make all the choices that will undermine your ability to work well in the long run.

What if your appearance, what if your social status… I can go on and on but here is my point. What our heart loves drives everything we do. And if our heart loves anything more than God, we will lose everything. We are a fool. Let’s do a quick experiment. Think about the three most foolish decisions you made last year. I know some of you can think of more than 20 but just think about the top three. Answer this question. Why did you do it? Is it because you didn’t know it was a foolish decision? More likely than not, you knew it was dumb before you did it. So, why did you do it? It’s not because you didn’t know but it’s because that’s what your heart wanted. Do you see? It is only when our heart loves God above all that we can make wise decisions. Unless God is at the centre of what our heart loves, unless God is the one thing that we cannot live without, we are not wise. We are foolish. We will continue to make decisions that lead to emptiness and destruction.

So now, we have a problem. In order to grow wise, we need to constantly make the right choices. It is the little choices that determine who we are going to be. But we cannot change our choices just because we want to. Our choices are driven by what our hearts love the most. Can you see the problem? That’s why if all we do is behaviour modification, it is only a matter of time before it fails. Because our heart wants what it wants. Strong willpower might help us make the right choices for a while. But it is only a matter of time before everything collapses. Because our main problem in life is our heart loves the wrong thing. Our loves are disordered. There is nothing wrong with money, children, relationships, or careers. But if they become the most important thing in our lives, our loves are disordered. And we will destroy our lives with our decisions. So, the question we must ask first and foremost is not, “How can I make the wise decision?” but “How can I change what my heart loves the most? How am I going to change what I want most?” That’s the key to walking in wisdom. The key to walking in wisdom is not in the acts of the will but in the love of the heart. Because everything we do flows from our hearts. So, how do we do that?

The word

Proverbs 4:20-22 – ²⁰ My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. ²¹ Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. ²² For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.

In these verses, Solomon is telling us how to walk in wisdom. First, keep the word of God in our hearts. Solomon is saying, “The key to guard your heart, the key to walk in wisdom, is to take the word of God, keep it in your heart, and apply it in your daily life. They are life to you.” Notice that Solomon does not tell us to simply live by the word of God, but he says that the word of God is life. When we put the word of God in our hearts, it is life to us and it’s going to help us walk in wisdom. How? Let me show you. I am going to give two of my favourite verses in the Bible. Proverbs 16:1 – The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. Proverbs 16:9 – The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps. You read that, you believe it, you ponder on it, and you apply it in your daily life. What will happen? Let me tell you what will happen. You will use your brain. You will think before you make a decision. You will make plans. Why? Because God wants you to make plans. You are responsible for making the best plan you can. You are responsible for your decision. So, you are to use everything you know from the word of God to make the best decision possible. This includes everything we talked about last week about growing in wisdom. You are to know God, trust God, submit to God’s word and live in a community. You must do your homework. But then, whatever comes next, whatever you decide, whatever comes of your mouth, is exactly the way God has planned. Even the smallest things are fixed by God’s plan.

It is one of the mysteries of the Bible. We do not know how to hold these truths together. We believe either our choices matter, and our future is open and not fixed, or we believe everything is fixed and determined, and therefore, nothing we do matters. It’s either or. But the Bible says both and. We are both absolutely free and absolutely determined at the same time. And this is crucial to walk in wisdom. It means your plans are yours. Your choices are yours. You are responsible for them. No one is forcing you to make those decisions. But what actually happens as a result of your choices is absolutely determined by God. Nothing happens outside of his plan. And it’s not 50/50, 50% free and 50% determined. It is 100% free and 100% determined under the sovereignty of God. So, if you choose to mess up with your choice, that’s on you. If you know the Bible says you should not date an unbeliever, and you meet a really cute unbeliever and you date that person and your Christian life goes downhill, that’s on you. You did not keep God’s words. God did not make you do it. So, if you know this, now you have an incentive to think clearly, to make wise choices, to do what is right. But let’s say you do your best to keep God’s word and apply it in your daily life, and life blows up. Your decision does not work out as expected. You are faithful to your spouse, you raised your children in the fear of God, you submit to God’s word, and suddenly someone tricks you and you go bankrupt. What do you do? You do not freak out. Why? You know that everything is under God’s control and God is working all things together for your good. You are responsible for your choices, but you are not in control of what happens; God is. Do you see?

So, when people come up to me and say, “I have a very important decision to make, and I need help. I want to know God’s will for my life” I usually say, “Love God, keep his words, use your brain, and make a decision.” They say, “What do you mean? It cannot be that easy. How can I know for sure that this is what God wants me to do? Is it that if I have peace about this decision then it is from God? But if I don’t feel peace then it is not from God?” No. That’s making decisions based on feeling, not wisdom. I am not saying feeling is not important but feeling cannot be how you make decisions. To walk in wisdom is to keep God’s word in your heart, apply it to your daily life, and decide. Some of you might say, “But that’s too scary. It’s too risky. There are still too many uncertainties. What if my decision does not turn out well?” That’s okay. Because to the best of your knowledge, you are making your decisions based on God’s word. The outcome is not in your hands; it’s in God’s hands. That’s what it means to walk by faith and not by sight. If you think having wisdom means that you will have a better life, that your decision will always lead to a peaceful harmonious outcome, you are not believing the Bible; you are believing the wrong gospel. Look at Joseph’s life for example. The young Joseph made the right and wise decision again and again. And do you know what happened to him? He was betrayed by his brothers. He was sold as a slave. He was put in prison. He ended up in a pit. So, he made all the wise choices and life blew up. But do you what the Bible said about Joseph when he went through all those pains? But the Lord was with Joseph. And it was through those pains that God made Joseph grow in wisdom and accomplished God’s purpose for his life. It means God established his steps. It is very possible for wisdom to lead you to the eye of the storm. Wisdom does not promise a pain-free life, but wisdom does promise that God has a purpose for your pain. So, plan the best you can according to God’s word, and God will establish your steps.

But here is the most important part. In order to walk in wisdom, we need not only to keep God’s word, but we also need to love God above all. Because our decisions are driven by what our hearts love the most. That’s why we must not only keep the word of God in our hearts, but second, we need the Word of life. Let me tell you where to get it and I am done. We need to put the book of Proverbs into the context of the whole Bible. Here is what we see. In John chapter 5, Jesus is talking to the scribes and Pharisees. John 5:39 – You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me. Listen. It is not enough for us to know what the Bible says and keep it in our hearts. Because Jesus says, “Every part of the Bible is about me. It is I that gives life. I am the Word of life.” In other words, Jesus is the very Word of God. Jesus is the wisdom of God. And when we put him in our hearts, it will make us wise. In Jesus, the wisdom of God is no longer an abstraction; it is a person. It is someone we can know and have a relationship with. And it is only when we see the wisdom of God in the person of Jesus, it is only when we see the wisdom of God manifested at the cross, that our hearts will love God above all. Do you know why Jesus is the Word of life? Do you know how Jesus brings healing to our lives? By giving up his life. Jesus was the only truly wise person who ever lived. But at the end of his life, what he experienced was not brightness but the deepest darkness. At the cross, Jesus cried out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Jesus experienced the deepest darkness that you and I should have experienced because of our dumb choices. Jesus took the darkness we deserve. He embraced the forsakenness of God so that when we put our faith in him, we can be sure that God will never forsake us. Instead, God will establish our steps. That’s what heals our hearts. That’s the beauty our heart is looking for. That’s the gospel.

And when we take the gospel into our hearts, when we pound the truth of the gospel deep into our hearts, it changes what our hearts love the most. We see the beauty of the cross and we love Jesus above all. Then and only then we can walk in wisdom. Our hearts are no longer captivated by other things because we have found the most beautiful one of all. We can’t change our hearts by saying, “I need to stop loving my children too much. I need to stop loving money, relationships, and careers too much. I must obey God’s word more.” That does not work. Listen. It is only when the beauty of Jesus grasps our hearts that we can love other things less than him. It is only when Jesus is the treasure of our hearts that we can walk in wisdom. When Jesus is first and money is second, we can make wise financial decisions. When Jesus is first and relationship is second, we can make good choices on whom to marry. When Jesus is first and children are second, we can raise our children in the fear of God. When Jesus is first and career is second, we can be productive for the glory of God. It is seeing the glory of Jesus at the cross that changes what our heart loves the most.

But listen, and I close with this. It does not happen overnight. Proverbs 4:18 – But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. We do not become wise overnight. The path of the righteous shines brighter and brighter. As we continue to gaze on the Word of life, as we meditate on the wisdom of God crucified at the cross for us, our heart loves him more and more, we long for him more and more, and there will be nothing our heart desires more than him. That’s the source of wisdom. And that is how we walk in wisdom. Let’s pray.

Discussion questions:

1. What struck you the most from the sermon?
2. “The Bible does not give us specific guidance for many situations we face in life, but the Bible helps us to be the kind of person who makes wise choices.” What does it teach us about Biblical wisdom and how is it different from how people often think about wisdom?
3. Think about the three most foolish decisions you made last year. Why did you do it? What does it say about the importance of the heart?
4. How does the gospel make us wise?
5. In the light of what you have learned about wisdom, how do you make wise choices? Work together with your MC to list out each step and what needs to be taken into consideration in each step.