BEEN THINKING ABOUT: ENLIGHTENMENT

BEEN THINKING ABOUT: ENLIGHTENMENT

What does it take to be wise?
In a television commercial for online yellow pages, actor David Carradine plays a guru to a young seeker. When the student asks, “How do I find enlightenment?” the master says, “Yellowbook.com . . . . Everyone is searching for something. . . . After all, it is a material world, and with yellowbook.com, you just type in what and where.”

The ad is insightful. Wisdom does involve the practical use of knowledge to get what we are looking for. The commercial is also right in suggesting that wisdom is more accessible than many of us might have thought.

Could it be that easy? A New Testament writer by the name of James says followers of Christ can have wisdom for the asking. With a promise that sounds too good to be true, he writes, “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him” (James 1:5).

James adds only one condition. He says we need to want to know how to trust God in the middle of our problems (vv.6-8).

Why would we need it? James wrote to people who were struggling with problems that tested their faith (James 1:2-3). As first-century followers of Christ, they probably had counted the cost of religious and social persecution. But they might not have foreseen all of the ways they would disappoint and disillusion one another.

From the beginning, Jesus had taught His disciples to love one another (John 15:17). Yet, just a few years later, His followers were at war with one another (James 4:1-2). With prejudice, hurtful words, and outright hypocrisy, family and friends were acting like enemies.

It is in this conflict-filled setting that James assures his readers that wisdom is closer than they might have thought. But he does more than tell them how to find it. He also shows them how to recognize a wisdom that comes from “above” rather than from “below.”

So what does this mean?
Stop sitting on your ass and get to the point, we have presented opportunity to you, time for a change and yet ignorance and stupid still strikes you. Some people would put a gun to your head and pull the trigger cuz your so dumb... What is MONEY?? actually in your case? What will it take to make money...

YOU MEAN YOU WANT ME TO DO THE WORK FOR YOU
YOUR TO STUPID TO TALK TO FRIENDS
YOU WANT TO BE BROKE ALL YOUR LIFE
YOU DONT HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE SUCCESSFUL

SIGN UP STOP BEING STUPID, LETS MAKE MONEY.. CUT THE BULL CUZ YOU ARE LAZY!!

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