UNDERSTANDING VISIONS (PART 3).

TEXT: Job 32:7-9 (AMP)
⁷ I said, Age should speak, and a multitude of years should teach wisdom [so let it be heard].
⁸ But there is [a vital force] a spirit [of intelligence] in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives men understanding.
⁹ It is not the great [necessarily] who are wise, nor [always] the aged who understand justice.

In most part of Africa there is the believe that understanding and wisdom is with the elders. Therefore the older you are the wiser you are expected to be. If that is completely true Africa would have been the foremost continent of the world but we all know that is not the case. Without the fear of God there cannot be true wisdom. Experience does not count for the wisdom we speak of. Rather, it is the inspiration of the almighty God that breaths understanding into the spirit of a man to make him exceptional. Someone who is approaching an issue or a problem by his experience does so by the limit of the knowledge he received at a particular time, but when a more serious situation that is beyond his knowledge and experience arises he becomes confused. Jesus once told his disciples to beware of the yeast of the Pharisees but then his disciples completely misunderstood and misinterpreted his words thinking he was angry they forgot to buy bread. When he heard what they were saying he said “...Why are you reasoning and saying it is because you have no bread? Do you not yet discern or understand? Are your hearts in [a settled state of] hardness?”
¹⁸ Having eyes, do you not see [with them], and having ears, do you not hear and perceive and understand the sense of what is said? And do you not remember? (See Mark 8:15-18 AMP).  These are those who were in the position of leadership yet they missed it.

Verse 9 of our text says “It is not the great [necessarily] who are wise, nor [always] the aged who understand justice.” Whenever we take God out of the picture depending on our experience or intellect we will begin to make a mockery of ourselves. Take some time today to ask God for the inspiration you need to go from where you are to the next level of glory he destined for you and you will begin to see the grace of God at work in your life. The Glory Realm Devotional by Rev. Igho Y; the Glorious Fountain Ministries.