Proverbs 24:7
“Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.”
There is something satisfying to my wife asking, “Honey, would you open this please?” Even though I may strain at it, I want her to think that I am capable where she is limited in these areas. Another example would be when she can’t reach something out of the top shelf in a cabinet. What is out of reach for her is in my ability to grasp.
Fools can’t reach spiritual wisdom. It is out of their grasp. Earthly wisdom is down on the bottom shelf perhaps. But God’s wisdom is on another level. This doesn’t mean that the fool can’t ever get wisdom. It doesn’t mean that God cares more about others than He does for the fool. What it means is that those that have chosen the path of the fool have chosen to put the things of God on a shelf high above what they are able to reach themselves.
When you find that something is out of reach, you look for help. It may be a person or it may be a tool. But humility plays into the process of admitting your lack and looking for direction. Fools have to turn from their ways if they want to put the help that God gives into their lives. If you’re in a place where you think you aren’t able to get what God has, then you need to turn from something in order to get more from God. James 3:17 says, “But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.” God’s wisdom is first pure. The requirement is simple-get clean and get wisdom.
Wisdom for the Day: All of God’s goodness is out of reach to the common man. Asking for help takes humility, and this is certainly a start. But another part to reaching God’s help is turning from foolishness and sin to receive it.