Wisdom

Ecclesiastes 8:1  “Who is like the wise?  Who knows the explanation of things?  A person’s wisdom brightens their face and changes its hard appearance.”

                There are so many different small details that I could point out about this verse that would give me more than enough material to write this post, but my goal on this blog is to make quick and short little devotional reads which means that I’ve decided to spare you all my ramblings.  Perhaps someday I’ll come back to this verse, but for now, the part that I want to focus on in this post is the last sentence.

                A lot of people are unhappy in this world.  I have definitely been one of them at multiple times in my life.  I have found, however, that in a few of my darkest times when I really hate the world, hate myself, hate people, that putting my trust and faith into something bigger than me, into God, has really helped.  Wisdom in this verse is certainly referring to knowledge of God and the Trinity.  It’s about knowing that they are active forces in our lives, that we are saved, and that our lives are lovingly in their hands.  Once you come to peace with those facts and just trust that there is a plan—even if it is one that you as only a human can’t comprehend—then you become lighter.  You’ll never be perfectly happy or perfectly satisfied because humans aren’t perfect but you will be changed for the better.  The changes may be bigger in some than in others, but they are still changes regardless of their size.  Wisdom can only help.