Discernment is the one gift that it would seem that only God can give, on which He places great favor to those who understand its value. We hear about it in Job and then we hear of it in association with Solomon’s request for wisdom. And we come to think of the man possessing it to have wise judgment .

But discernment is more than that. Discernment in the biblical sense is possessing some truth or understanding about your times, about others and trusting God’s purpose for them.

A discerning man is not necessarily wise in people skills sought after by man. Jesus was the epitome of wisdom, but was not always in good stead among sometimes even His friends. He was not always understood, but He understood all.

You and I are to seek his wisdom even when it turns others off. His wisdom was not without love for His fellow man.

He told the rich young ruler to go and sell all that he had and to come and follow Him. The young man went away sad and conflicted. Wisdom when applied to the life of man does not always reap love in return, but it is a wise love (a God type love) that Paul put ahead of all of the giftings that can come to us from God.

Think about it. Just because God loves us with a perfect wise discernment, does not mean that He gives us everything that our (yes new), but still imperfect heart desires. We do not always feel loved. But true love is not feelings. We as wise parents do the same for our own children. Our desire for them is that they also would seek wisdom and discernment before anything else from this our God, whom we do so want them to love and seek after.

My brothers love one another even as God does love us.