I stared at my phone pondering if should I join the latest hashtag challenge. What do I do? Should I join or just ignore it? I needed God’s wisdom. How do I practice wise living?

How do I react to the friends that I feel have forgotten me? I thought we were friends. I knew what the selfish me wanted to do but is that how God wants me to act? Is that following God’s wisdom or my own foolishness. I need God’s wisdom.

I am finding more and more that I need wisdom. Not my own knowledge, thoughts, and understanding but God’s wisdom. I need it in how I act and react on social media, how I relate to other people, how I manage work, and a number of other big and small big things in my life.

Do you feel that same need, the need for God’s wisdom? Follow along as over the coming weeks I will be writing about various areas where we need to be living wise.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. James 1:5 (ESV).

This is the information to a series that I will be doing entitled, Wise Living.

What is Wise Living?

Wise living is living according to God’s wisdom. It will be different and our thinking and way of living will be different. Wisdom is living God’s way.

If we hear the word of Jesus, and do them we will be wise. Remember the story Jesus told of the wise man who builds his house on the rock. Matthew 7:24-27 gives the details. The foundation for being wise has to be God and his truth which is unchanging.

The foolish man builds his house on the sand. That is not a foundation that cannot withstand in the storms of life.

Foolishness is the opposite of wise. I think another term and thus a concept that we can use for that is worldview. This is how the world views life. The worldview often has some good but we need to understand if it leading in God’s truth.

Why do we need Wise Living?

We life in a world where truth is being altered and changed to fit each person’s ideas. It has become that truth is what you want to make it. Truth is now based on feelings instead of facts. As Christians we need to know truth and that requires wise living.

We need wisdom to discern the lies that creep into from the truth of God. It might be a quote on social media that sounds good but when we take the time to look at the meaning, we discover that it is not biblical truth. It could creep in as we begin to make the world’s values our values. Not all of that is wrong but we need wisdom to discern what matches with God’s truth.

As we go through this series, part of looking at the topics will be evaluating what the world, social media, and even memes have to say about this issue.

Why is this important?

We need to learn to live and act the way God wants us to. We are in the world but not of the world. Without wisdom it is easy to begin to live according to the world’s views.

In some ways we are faced with more challenges now through social media, information overload, and books more so than anything other time. I don’t see those going away. The world view slithered into the world all the way in the Garden of Eden when the view of how Adam and Even would view God was challenged. Instead of standing firm on God’s truth they listened and allowed that view to change their lives.

What Topics will be Discussed?

This post was written to introduce the topic. Over the coming weeks there will be specific areas that we will consider in how we can live wisely. While books have been written about these topics, I want to keep the posts shorter than a book so that you can read and respond. Some specific topics that will be considered are the following:

• Wise Living – Work
• Wise Living – Social Media
• Wise Living – Entertainment
• Wise Living – Relationships
• Wise Living – Time
• Wise Living – Money

Do you have a topic to add to this list? Leave a message in the comments.

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