Marcel Proust said, "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."

This "wisdom" Proust refers to was the topic of Kyle Steven Bonenberger's message this last Sunday, January 10th. Kyle explained that, as people, we struggle with understanding the difference between knowledge and wisdom. In the fictional stories of John and Jenny portrayed this past weekend, we looked at two people who struggle to lead lives according to God's will rather than ones laced with doubt and bad decisions.

It was with Jenny and John's story that Kyle read James 1:5, which said, "if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him." And in that passage God asks us to not doubt him, but to have faith.

Like John and Jenny, though, temptation and fear cause us to seek pleasure and happiness in sources other than God. And in many ways, we believe that we can find our own peace without God being involved. But only through wisdom can we see that "we don't have it all togther." This wisdom, as explained by Proust, can be hard to find.

Kyle says that cultivating the process of seeking God's wisdom teaches us to find it. That process often involves us being able to listen to God with no agenda and to surrender our control to Him.

"God wants us to shut up and listen," Kyle explained. "Let God go first. Let God be God."