My heart jumped as if I just hit the pot of gold when I read about Job looking for the place where Wisdom resides! What is Wisdom? It is understanding of how we should proceed or act upon our knowledge! Wisdom tells us when we should do it, what we should say, and provide any kind of direction for us to follow.
Job mentioned that silver, gold, iron, copper, and other stones that come from different places and different ways of the refining process! Copper is smelted from the ore, unlike gold! We all are like the stones, we all go through different process to be beautiful! To be who He created us to be!
BUT... no bird of prey knows, no eyes have seen, no creations has walked upon the path to Wisdom! The path to where?... The path to an increased faith "overturns mountains by the root"... wow! So, where is it?!? Sounds like the Lord of Rings doesn't it? Walking across the narrow path, crossing the lava to the place of Wisdom where no one had crossed! Um... what is the name of the place? Yeah it is called Gethsemane! It is the place where Jesus was led to die in order to save us! But how do we get there?
"Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding."
What's "the fear of the Lord"? Let's look at what Jesus did. Jesus came to the earth to submit to the plans of the Father, even Jesus stopped Peter from cutting a soldier's ear so Peter won't infer His plan for Jesus. Even Jesus refused to defend Himself that Pilate had no choice, but to wash his hands to show his innocence and allowed the people to accomplish their evil schemes! BUT they are deceived because all of those things are according to His plan! God outwits them all! We all have a clever God!
How do we get to Gethsemane, the place of Wisdom? There is the only way to get there, by retracing Jesus' steps. We got to imitate Jesus! What does it means to imitate Him? Yeah this is so deep! We got to understand what Jesus went through before we open our eyes to be able to find our way across! To go through what Jesus went through, we will have to understand His sufferings. To sit with Him, to walk with Him, to cry with Him, to shout in agony with Him, to be shut-out with Him, to be alone with Him, to shout "Eli, Eli, why has You forsaken me" as we become the mud at the bottom of the container like the final process of the gold being refined! To die to ourselves like how Jesus died. To become His true friend as He called us to be His friend. HIS FRIEND.
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