All true wisdom begins with God and proceeds from Him. It begins with Him. Psalm 111:10, Proverbs 1:7, and 9:10 all describe how the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge. The Bible holds nothing back. The only wisdom that makes a person truly wise begins and ends with God. Here’s the point - you will never be truly wise unless the wisdom that you have comes from God. Therefore, if you have any desire at all to be wise, you must have His wisdom.
So what does His wisdom look like and how can we get it? After detailing the heart, origin, and evidence of sinful wisdom in verses 14-16, James transitions to describe God’s wisdom to us in verses 17 and 18. These verses reveal just how contradictory God’s wisdom is to the world’s wisdom.
James 3:17-18
[17] But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. [18] And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
We’ll divide these two verses about Godly wisdom into three parts:
What it is - First pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits
What it’s not - without partiality, and without hypocrisy
What it Produces - And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace
