Monday, April 27, 2009 

The Wisdom of God and Supreme Knowledge

The wisdom of God is the Source of true wisdom, and He grants it generously to those who sincerely seek wisdom, ask for it in faith, showing a wholesome, reverential fear of Him.(Prov 2:1-7; James 1:5-8) Divine wisdom in the absolute sense is found in God, who is "wise alone" in this sense. (Rom16:27) Knowledge is acquainted with fact, and, being the Creator, who is "from time indefinite to time indefinite" God knows all there is to know about the universe, its composition and contents.

God's Wisdom emphasizes on sound judgment. It is based on knowledge and understanding; the ability to use knowledge and understanding successfully to solve problems, avoid or avert dangers, attain certain goals or to counsel others in doing so. Wisdom therefore implies a breath of knowledge and a depth of understanding, these giving the soundness and clarity of judgment is a characteristic of wisdom.

Understanding is the ability to see how the parts or aspects of something relate to one another. Seeing the entire matter and 1933 Goudey baseball cards just isolated facts, is understanding. Prov 9:10, In saying that "knowledge of the Creature from the Black Lagoon model Holy One is what understanding is," shows that true understanding of anything involves appreciation of its relation to God and His purposes. Because a person with understanding is able to connect new information to things he already knows, "knowledge is easy to him who understands."

Understanding fortifies wisdom in other ways. For example, a person may obey a certain command of God, due to recognizing the rightness of such obedience, and this is wisdom on their part. But if that person gets true understanding of the reason for that command, the good purpose it serves and the benefits accruing from it, their heart's determination to continue in that wise course is greatly strengthened. (Prov 14:33) A wise person with true understanding is happy to get any information that will grant him a clearer view into the underlying circumstances, conditions and causes of problems. Thereby he "gets knowledge" as to what to do regarding the matter, knows what conclusions to draw and what is needed to solve the existing problem. (Prov 9:9)

Intelligence is another major factor in God's wisdom, the heart, which prominently relates to motivation and affection, is clearly a more important factor in gaining true wisdom. Clea Bella Dollfie Prov: 14:33) God's servant wants to get "sheer wisdom" in his "secret self," have wise motivation in planning his life course. (Psalm 51:6; 90:12) The heart of the wise is at the right hand that is, ready to help and protect him at critical moments. (Psalm 109:31) The heart of the fool is at the left failing to give him the needed motivation." (Eccl 10:2-3) The truly wise person has trained and disciplined his heart to give the proper motivation (Prov 23:19) it is as though he had written righteous commandments and law 'upon the tablet of his heart.' (Prov 7:1-3)

The wisdom of God is the ability to put knowledge to work or use it, the intelligent application of learning. A person might have considerable knowledge, but not know how to use it because of lacking wisdom. Therefore, knowledge and wisdom work together with understanding. Jesus linked wisdom with accomplishment in saying: "Wisdom is proved righteous by its works." (Matt 11:19)

God's grand purpose is founded on and centered in His Son, Christ Jesus "has become to us [Christians] wisdom from God." (1Cor 1:30) In whom are hidden all the treasures of knowledge and wisdom. (Col 2:3) Only through Him and by faith in Him, God's "Chief Agent of life," can salvation and life be attained. (Acts3:15, John 14:6) There is, therefore, no true wisdom that fails to consider Jesus Christ, that does not base its judgment and decisions solidly on God's purpose as revealed in Him.

Solomon asked for and received from God knowledge and wisdom. (2 Chron 1:10) In the case of two women who claimed the same child, Solomon had knowledge of a mother's devotion to her Viagra cocktail he displayed wisdom by using his knowledge to settle the dispute. Solomon also found that, while such human wisdom produces varied pleasures and proficiency that brought material wealth, it could not bring true happiness or lasting satisfaction. The wise man died along with the stupid, not knowing what would become of his possessions, and his human wisdom ceased in the grave. (Eccl 2:3-11)

Solomon does not say human wisdom is utterly without value. Compared with mere foolishness, which he also investigated, the advantage of wisdom over folly is like that of 'light over darkness.' For the wise man's eyes 'are in his head," serving his intellectual powers that in turn feed the heart, whereas the stupid man's eyes do not see with thoughtful discernment. (Eccl 2:12-14) Wisdom offers a security of greater value than money. (Eccl 7: 11-12) But Solomon showed that its worth was all relative, entirely dependent on its conformity to God's wisdom and purpose. (Eccl 2-24; 3:11-15; 8:12-13; 9:1)

A person can be excessive in striving to manifest the wisdom of God, pushing their self beyond the limits of their imperfect ability in a self-destructive course. (Eccl 7-16) But by obediently serving their Creator and being content with food, drink and the good that his hard work brings him, God will give him the needed "knowledge and wisdom" and rejoicing." (Eccl 2:24-26) "Wisdom is the principal thing," Prov 4:7) for without it knowledge is of little value. God abounds in and provides both knowledge and wisdom. (Rom11:33, James 1:5) The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. (Prov 9:10)

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Changing the Point of Competition With Social Media

For those of us in "me too" markets differentiation can be a real problem.

This is particularly true in the business services sector, 1960 Fleer baseball cards the majority of start-ups are, but it's also true of any product or service which is custom fit Tammy doll individual client requirements.

Our competitive advantage isn't that we help people buy property, or broker mortgages, or design/build web sites. It's in the way we do it. The ways we help the client understand what's important, and what isn't. The ways we use our expertise to minimize client costs, and risks. The ways we commit to client satisfaction, in order to build those on-going relationships that bring us repeat orders and referrals.

When our competitive advantage resides in our ability to add value, it's awful hard to stand out from the crowd. Everybody claims to do the same. Using our marketing pages to describe it just positions us alongside everybody else. Explaining how we do it in that little Adwords box is close to impossible.

Marketing sites and paid search advertising do nothing to help us stand out from the crowd.

But the Social Media sites are an entirely different proposition. They provide us with a platform for really demonstrating profiles, personalities and expertise that doesn't exist in the traditional marketing media, and for the Superman comics at least they're free of charge.

These Social Media sites (there are thousands) give us the opportunity to meet lots of new people, some of whom will be prospective customers/clients and others who will know people who are looking for what we offer. They probably aren't looking to buy right now, but when they do, we can be established as a credited, and differentiated, provider. That's a whole lot better than being just another Ad in Google's paid search results.

However, that isn't the point of this particular post. For the moment we're talking Chatty Cathy credibility and differentiation.

For the purposes of the article we can limit the discussion to Linked In, but depending on our business there are other sites offering the same kind of opportunities, including Xing, Facebook, and literally 1,000s of Ning and Collective X sites. The really advanced thinkers can add Twitter to the list, but that's a different subject we'll get to later.

As people who have accounts with Linked In will know, joining is as simple as registering with an email address and password.

The site immediately offers to search existing accounts for people we already know (via our address book) and invite those it finds to "connect" with us. It also offers to email invitations to our contacts who aren't already registered, asking them to join.

Next we create our "profile" summarizing our career, education and interests. Fatima tobacco cards can add our blog addresses and Linked In automatically fetches and displays our recent posts. Then we can ask our contacts to write recommendations on our profile and publish the testimonials we want visitors to see.

Within a few minutes, our entire profile is up and running, and our network starts to build. We have our value proposition summarized on one page for anybody to visit, and we can direct others we meet to find out about us, sending them the link to our public profile.

This differentiates us from the competition, demonstrates our expertise and confirms our capabilities. We're somebody - not just another three line Ad.

Moving on, we can join groups of like minded individuals, ask other members questions and answer others requests for help. We meet new people and spread our sphere of influence this way.

But for the purposes of this post at least, most importantly we can demonstrate our value add. This isn't like a few "me too" lines - it's real answers to real questions and lets the real "me" show through.

Even if we don't meet new contacts to work with we still have somewhere to send people who are interested in knowing more about us.

We no longer need to "sell" ourselves, just invite people to find out about us.

A well thought out and presented profile on Social Media sites illustrates who and what we are, as individuals, and the business offer comes along for the ride.

It creates a whole new competitive advantage and changes the rules of the game.

Steve Reeves is Founder and CEO of Front Office Box, the Business 2.0 solution for helping smaller businesses manage plans, tasks, schedules and relationships. His passion is helping them exploit the Internet to increase opportunities and enhance capabilities.

Steve is a 30 year veteran of sales and sales management roles in the B2B space, primarily software, consulting and outsourcing.

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