Here how: “study to show yourself approved…”. That’s the way. To this believer, wisdom is given. To the believer who does not study to show himself approved, even what little wisdom he has will be taken away.
Word of Wisdom is a high spiritual gift. Truly I believe anyone can have it. But to the believer who has a heart to know God and has invested everything in hearing and knowing His Word, in an ongoing way, behold, suddenly Word of Wisdom is yours, if the Spirit so decides. But not so for the one who does not study to show himself approved. This will not be yours.
That isn’t the complete picture either, but is a general overview. But really, these two things I’ll mention go hand in hand. I don’t see it possible to have one without the other. Obey what you study!
Truth only comes to the obedient. But only the studied can be obedient. If we aren’t studied then we prove we have no interest in knowing what to obey. So they go hand in hand. The one who studies to show himself approved is always the obedient one, the one trusted with the highest of all gifts.
Some who have been given some wisdom but have not continued laboring in the word to show themselves approved of God, think they can receive wisdom apart from the study of His word. Impossible. Won’t happen. What will happen is confusion of faces.
A believer’s doings reveal his heart. There is one reason a believer does not study to show themselves approved: they prefer darkness rather than light. They do not like God’s yoke. They think they can have wisdom from on high without the laboring, and intense laboring, in the Word of God. Such deception. Deserved deception. God is not mocked.
Won’t you humble yourself and study to show yourself approved today?
Amen!