James's Two Kinds of Wisdom, Part 1 (TMF:2088)

Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Peace to Live By: James's Two Kinds of Wisdom, Part 1 (TMF:2088) - Daniel Litton
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       Finally, James says here to end chapter 3: “But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.” In actuality, there are two kinds of wisdom. There is the kind that James previously talked about, the earthly wisdom. Then there is the above wisdom, which he is now referring to. Here are the terms again: first purity, then peace-loving, gentleness, reasonable, mercy-filled, good deeds-filled, not biased, and genuine. These are the good characteristics. Just out of curiosity, let’s do a scripture reversal here and see what the bad person looks like. He or she is one who is first impure, then sows disharmony, harsh, unreasonable, full of judgement and bad fruits, biased and counterfeit. That gives us a clear picture I think of what we aren’t to be like.