For a friend

According to Pastor Rick, from Pineridge Bible Church, Kingdom participants (Christians) are to offer their heads, hearts, and hands to The King of glory (Matthew 5:1-2). He noted that you must offer all three of these to the King, for an offer consisting of only part of the whole would not work according to the King's plans.

When he mentioned this I was reminded of Solomon's calls in Proverbs to "GET" knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. Knowing that the head could be considered the need for knowledge...that one ought to grow in the truth of what exists, nature, science, law, right and wrong...justice, love, beauty, etc...Knowing, however, is not enough. That knowledge must not lie stagnant in one's head, it must travel to their heart, enabling them to become passionate about serving their King (the more you know about God, the more for which you can Love God...this doesn't mean you love God more, it means that you can love God FOR more). When the knowledge penetrates the heart and leads one to contemplate their own use of knowledge, the grow in understanding...understanding what the purpose of knowledge of is...action. When one grows in understanding it is almost impossible to evade the third and final phase, growing in wisdom. Wisdom is evidenced by experience....not by living itself, but by living rightly. Making the right decisions develops wisdom.

Thus, the full process is as follows:

You learn about something, only to be affected in such a way that your mind engages your heart to become impassioned by that knowledge...that something must be done...and because you have the ability to do something about it, you engage the issue with your hands...you live in accordance to what you know to be right (according to the Word of God and the Spirit of Truth).

This is the pursuit of Wisdom...it's the pursuit of following God in His mission to redeem all things...by getting involved.