Wisdom and understanding

Greetings:
I'm thinking this morning about the importance of understanding the grace of God and the bearing of fruit in our Christian walk.
In the first chapter of Colossians the Apostle Paul lays out the foundation for this relationship.
We are privileged to see into Paul's prayer life. Sometimes we have a tendency to think that people's lives cannot be touched by us without us physically being there. Paul showed us that through prayer, God will impart such things as knowledge, wisdom, understanding, and strength in helping others in their spiritual walk, even without the physical presence of an individual.
Paul says we are to be thankful for faith, love, and hope.  His prayer is that the Colossians are to be filled with the knowledge of God's will, walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, strengthened by God's glorious power, and ever thankful that the Father has qualified them to be partakers of the
saints' inheritance. 
We should all claim that for today and claim it for ourselves.
To grasp what Paul is saying we have to have wisdom and understanding, two key elements to aid us in our Christian walk.
The Rev. Andrew Wommack says the words "wisdom" and "understanding" are used in combination a total of 53 times in scripture.
To utilize our facilities fully, wisdom and understanding have to work together.
Rev. Wommack says, “These terms can be explained in relation to a computer. The mind is like the hardware of a computer. It has the capacity to store all kinds of information, but it is useless without software and data. The understanding is the data, and wisdom is the software that allows us to retrieve, combine, and put out that information.”
As we go about or work and activities today, let us remember the words of Proverbs 3:6, which reads in the Amplified Bible: “In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.”


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