Mensa Otabil - The Fruit of God's Wisdom
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Proverbs 3:19 and 20: The Lord, by wisdom, founded the earth; by understanding, He established the heavens. By His knowledge, the depths were broken up, and clouds drop down the dew. The world we live in is the fruit of God’s wisdom. Everything we see in creation-every mountain, every river, the sun, the moon, the planets, the galaxy- all of these are manifestations of God’s wisdom, understanding, and knowledge.
That’s what the passage is saying. The things we see did not start as things; they started as wisdom, knowledge, and understanding in God. So you can say that they came from God’s mind, God’s thoughts, God’s thinking. For us to live fruitful lives, our minds must be fruitful; our thoughts must be fruitful, because the battle starts in the mind before it gets into physical reality. God stimulates our imagination through His words and promises. If you remember your Bible well, when God wanted to show Abraham how his future would be, He took him out and showed him the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore, and said, «So shall your descendants be.»
Why did God have to do that? He was triggering the imagination of Abraham, because if you can’t imagine it, you cannot do it. You think it, believe it, do it. If you can’t think it, you can’t believe it, and if you can’t believe it, you can’t do it. So fruitfulness starts with the mind. A mind that is trapped in impossibility cannot inspire fruitfulness. If your mind is constantly thinking about «It’s not possible; it cannot be done; I can’t see my way out of it,» and everything you see around you is in the negative form or you perceive only the reality, but never think beyond the reality to see what is possible and what can be done, then fruitfulness will elude you.
So, in living fruitful lives, God uses our minds and spirits to redesign our reality. God inspires new thoughts in our minds so that we can think of new things and start working towards them. One of the most fundamental differences between human beings and all other life forms is our ability to imagine. Imagination is unique to us, and with imagination, we can originate new possibilities. It’s amazing the kinds of things people do; sometimes, when you see what they have done, you wonder, «What were they thinking? How do they think? What kinds of ideas would make a person create this machine, or this product, or take this action?» It’s a fruitful mind; it’s a fruitful thought.
So I pray that God will give you a fruitful mind. Imagination helps us rearrange existing scenarios. When we use the power of imagination, we don’t just look at one situation as it is; we look at it in different forms. «What if it was this way? What if it was that way? What if we looked at it from another point of view?» That is using the power of imagination to rearrange the scenarios of your life. Imagination helps us see different actions that can be taken and to create a preferred future for ourselves. If we want to live fruitful lives, our minds cannot be fixed. We cannot just box ourselves into a space and say, «Well, this is how it’s always been; this is how it’s always going to be,» and talk ourselves out of solutions.
A fruitful life starts with a fruitful mind and fruitful thinking. We see it in the way God created the universe, and we see it in how people have created inventions in our world. We will see it in your life as God stimulates your thoughts so that you can look at life from a very wide point of view instead of a very narrow one. Fruitful works we see around us came from somebody’s mind, somebody’s imagination, somebody’s thought. It’s about time the world sees the fruitful thoughts that God has blessed you with.
Let us pray. Say with me, «Heavenly Father, open my mind to Your thoughts; help me to capture the new ideas of Your Spirit. In Jesus' name, Amen and Amen.»