Walking By Faith vs. Walking By Wisdom

Don’t worry or surrender to your fear. ~ John 14:1

Fear leads you to surrender and faith leads you to sacrifice. The opposite of fear isn’t using wisdom or common sense the opposite of fear is faith. God doesn’t call us to exercise common sense and wisdom ABOVE faith. It’s not that wisdom isn’t recommended. It’s that the superior walk is – we walk by faith not by sight. The Bible doesn’t say walk by wisdom. It says – walk by faith.

What is faith? Faith – is the assurance about what we do not see – Hebrews 11. Faith is trusting that God is steering you in the right direction regarding things being done in the supernatural. Steering you in a direction that you cannot see and trusting to follow Him regardless of the unknown.

Many times what God tells you to do will actually manifest itself as “wisdom“ in the natural. Joseph stored up grain for 7 years before a famine because God told him to do it. When the famine hit it seemed as though Joseph exercised wisdom to preserve the world during a famine when actually he just obeyed God in faith and did what God told him to do – Genesis 41.

In another famine God told His prophet Elijah to go to a widow and ask for food. How foolish for a prophet (that could have gone to anyone and asked for food) that he would choose someone cooking her last meal before her and her son were about to die. Asking someone for their last meal is seemingly foolish. That’s not using wisdom at all. Elijah exercised faith and told the lady if you cook me a meal you won’t run out of food during the whole famine. – 1 Kings 17.

The only wise thing to do in life is listen to what God is telling you.

Faith trumps wisdom. Wisdom is what the post-modern day Christian strives to live by and faith is what Jesus’ disciples were required to live by. If you want to be a disciple that ultimately becomes The Church – a legislative branch of called out ones then you have to embody walking by faith not by sight nor by wisdom.