Wisdom

I've been studying "wisdom" lately. That's my new topic for my scripture journal. I was blessed with wisdom (as per my Patriarchal Blessing), or at least the potential, so I wanted to learn more about it. More than just the "Solomon had wisdom" things, but what truly is wisdom, and how do we get it?

So here are a few things I've learned so far from LDS.org:

• "Wisdom is the ability or gift from God to judge correctly."
  

Ok, so that's a little heavy to carry. I started thinking, am I judging correctly? Do I make good decisions?

• "A person gains wisdom through experience and study and by following God's counsel. Without God's counsel, a man does not have true wisdom."

To be wise, we must be humble. We must rely on God to have wisdom. It is through personal revelation that God gives us wisdom. Without the Spirit, we wouldn't be able to make good decisions, to judge correctly.

Without scripture study, we wouldn't be able to be wise. I think part of that is learning from the experiences of others in the scriptures. Making them personal, "likening" them to ourselves.

I think also we can learn from friends and family who have special insights and experiences with certain things, trials they have gone through, mistakes they have made and the knowledge they have learned as a result, or decisions they have made that kept them out of trouble.

I hope that I can develop wisdom and make good decisions, so that I can be an example to my children and help them to make good decisions as well.