Benefits of Wisdom: Increased Prudence

Benefits of Wisdom: Increased Prudence

That He would show you the secrets of wisdom! For they would double your prudence. – Job 11:6

Another benefit of wisdom is its ability to make you more prudent; or – to put it in the exact words of the Bible – it will double your prudence. The New Oxford American Dictionary defines prudence as “the quality of being prudent; cautiousness: we need to exercise prudence in such important matters.”

Those sound like good traits to have as you navigate the turns and twists, the highs and lows of daily life. The Bible says wisdom has the capacity to infuse you with a double dosage of these qualities, thus equipping you with added savvy to deal with matters, enhancing your good judgment and decision-making, as well as improving your ability to manage resources.

By increasing your good judgment, wisdom gives you the advantage of being able to appraise issues and situations more realistically and accurately, such that making a decision afterward on what course to take is easier, and your call will be on point.

In terms of dealing with matters, wisdom gives you the needed edge to be practical, forthright, and effective in the way you handle routine and important matters. Wisdom helps you to be less sensational and more calculated in your approach to life. It makes your steps sure-footed and reduces your mistake ratio.

Wisdom also helps you to be a better manager of resources, such as time, money, talent, yourself, people, and other materials at your disposal. Your productivity level is directly proportional to your ability to manage the resources you have optimally. And that is a leverage that only wisdom can give you. The more reason you are encouraged to go all out for wisdom.

You will succeed in Jesus’ Name!

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