Wisdom is always better than knowledge. You can easily have both of them. Sure, you have every access to get those BUT the process of getting them is different.
Intellectual stuff are really amazing. It makes you discover things that people around you couldn't care less about. It makes you feel extraordinary or superior from other people because you are capable of learning and knowing those stuff. As what I've learned in college (and I'm still holding into this up until now), INTELLIGENCE IS RELATIVE. If you want to be intelligent into something, all you need to do is invest time to learn it. You need to be eager, focus and passionate into it but of course, you cannot be intelligent into everything cos you are not God! And no matter how intelligent you think you are, one day, God will hit your ego to make you feel not. That's why I've said into something. The good news is that, learning intellectual stuff is painless, nowadays! You don't need to send yourself back to school just to learn something, buy expensive books or stay long hours in the national library. Google is just one click away and it's free that opens 24/7. So, if you think you want to be intelligent and you think you can't be one, you need to think twice.
But you see, learning those intellectual stuff is MEANINGLESS. No matter how many philosophies or theories you've learned if there are no applications in life, then, they are meaningless! YOU JUST KNOW THEM PERIOD. The thing about it is that, we feel special knowing those stuff but we can't even share it with people because most of the time, nobody cares! That's why if you're passionate in learning intellectual stuff, there is an intense need of writing it or in any other form of art and you share it online. And the worst part is that, sure, you know those things BUT you can't do something about it which leads to depression and frustration especially if it's too much.
For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes 1:18 NIV
UNLIKE wisdom, it comes from Heaven. It is something that you can apply to your everyday life. It encourages yourself and the people around you. It is gentle and very understanding, it always comes with good intentions, so that would never make you feel superior from others. Wisdom is the road to maturity and once you have it, you would not just decide based on current circumstances or let your emotion as your deciding factor because you know that it comes from your heart.
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Jeremiah 17:9 NIV
That is why you know that you need to guard your heart because it is the course of your life. But you can't trust it and so, you ask guidance from God with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
Proverbs 4: 23 NIV
Wisdom also teaches us to do the right thing that is holy and pleasing in the eyes of God. If you have it, you don't just easily flirt with what the world has to offer. You break free from the stereotype that "it feels good, so it is right" worldly way, that is pure SELF-CENTEREDNESS! You know your purpose and you live it by doing the right thing.
For wisdom will enter your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
Discretion will protect you,
and understanding will guard you.
Proverbs 2:9-11 NIV
It's a big WOW, right? But how do you get it? As what I've said earlier, that makes it different from getting knowledge. Well, wisdom is from heaven, so, obviously, we get it from God. Then, you maybe asking me, "Is that even possible? Hello? I sin 24/7.. I'm not qualified, so how could God give that to me?". You maybe thinking that way but actually, we all have access into that wisdom! Regardless if you're sinning or not (NOT? Really? You don't sin? Everyone sins against God, deal with it!), we just need to ask! God knows all your sin and intention but He does not dig it and punch it between the eyes when you're asking for wisdom. And oh, you might say "You've got to be kidding me! You're just saying that", but it is written and I'll tell you what, God's grace is sufficient for you and me! Even if we don't deserve it, God's giving it for free!!
If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
James 1:5 NIV
SEE? That is how loving the God that we serve! I'd like to stress this line without finding fault! Can you imagine if getting wisdom is based on the good things you've done in your life? Maybe you can count the wise people on your fingers.
In the same light, being wise and intelligent are not in born. You might heard other people say, intelligence is inherited or a person was born like that. But no, like what I've said it is relative, so, you can be into something as much as you want to be. Same is true with wisdom, YOU JUST NEED TO ASK. :) Although, you might say that God has chosen people to be wise and that is true. They are really called to be like that but they chose God first before they become chosen. They have decided to follow Christ and live out their purposes. Sure, God may have different plans for us because each one of us are unique but the decision of being wise will always come from us and the desire will come from God and it will be given all by His grace if we just ask. :)
