We’ve rounded the corner of week nine of our Lies Young Women Believe Summer Book Club. We hope you’ve been studying along as we’ve worked through True Woman 201: Interior Design by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth and Mary Kassian. This week I honed in on some advice from the study that every girl needs. Check it out in the video below.
No Fast Track to Wisdom
Wisdom means understanding the ways of God. We all want to be wise, but it’s not something you can fast track. Some things about knowing God and living out His Word simply take time. That’s why your grandma seems so smart! Those extra years of life and learning have translated into greater wisdom than you have capacity for right now.
We all want to be wise, but it’s not something you can fast track.
So if you’re frustrated because you don’t have the Christian life all figured out, let me let you off the hook you’re hanging on. Wisdom takes time! If you continue to dig into God’s Word and seek to understand Him, you will be wiser in a year than you are now and wiser in a decade than you are today. We won’t ever figure God all out or live His will perfectly this side of heaven, but as we continue to follow Him, we will continually grow in wisdom. That’s why God gave us this formula for growing in wisdom.
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior. . . . They are to teach what is good, and so train the younger women (Titus 2:3–4).
You can grow in wisdom by spending time with older women. Younger girls can grow in wisdom by spending time with you. With that game plan in mind, here is your assignment for this week. Spend some time with an older woman. That doesn’t have to look like official “mentoring.” Just grab lunch or coffee or ask if you can come hang out at her house.
We won’t ever figure God all out or live His will perfectly this side of heaven, but as we continue to follow Him, we will continually grow in wisdom.
Spend some time with a younger woman. This can be your sister, your neighbor, or someone a year or two behind you in school. Don’t feel like you have to plan an agenda or download all of everything you know in a single setting. Just give a girl access to your life so that she can learn from your wisdom. Who is the wisest woman you know? How much of her wisdom has come from life experience?