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Wisdom as Foresight
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Scripture teaches that true wisdom is not merely learning but seeing seeing connections, consequences, timing, and judgment. A wise person looks ahead, discerning the shape of things to come, while the fool may possess mountains of information yet lack a shred of foresight. Our age is full of data and degrees but empty of wisdom: endless reports, expert studies, and policy papers have produced little more than blind decisions in matters like war, poverty, and environmental control. The Bible makes the source of wisdom unmistakably clear: “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.” Only when God’s Word and God’s law are taken seriously when men acknowledge that sin brings death and that we reap what we sow does true sight return. A culture that denies God blinds itself, and in declaring God dead, it signs its own death warrant.