Gideon is now prepared for battle. He divides his three hundred men into three companies giving them each a trumpet and an empty pitcher and a torch.
Now, I’ve served in the military and you would think that the proper weapons would be an M-16, a B4, and some hand grenades – not a trumpet, a pitcher, and a torch.
The pitcher was to hide the burning torches as they advanced toward the army of the Midianites. Hearing the horses and seeing the three hundred torches deceived the Midianites into believing that the army of Israel was large and well-armed.
Gideon and his army were successful because of God’s wisdom being upon Gideon.
A student in Columbia University was under the impression that he had been assured by the institution that he would be taught wisdom. Feeling that the university had failed him in the matter, he filed suit against it for eight thousand dollars.
The Superior Court dismissed the case; and the Appellate Division of the Superior Court ruled that the suit had been properly dismissed.
The presiding judge Sidney Goldmann of the three-man appellate court declared, “These charges were set in a frame of intemperate, if not scurrilous, accusations. We agree with the trial judge that wisdom is not a subject that can be taught and that no rational person would accept such a claim made by any man or institution.”
The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say and a wise man knows whether to say it or not.
What to do:
✞ None of us are wise enough to make us through this life without God and God’s wisdom.
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