The Characteristic Of Wisdom Series

and instruction;

2) instruction: musar’. (myo-sar) Musar is how one acquires Hokhmah. Wisdom cannot be obtained through experience and common sense alone. It must be taught by an instructor who disciplines. Musar means chastisement, reproof, warning, restraint, correction, discipline, doctrine, and rebuke. Musar is the painful aspect of learning. One possesses musar if he is able to recognize his own unruly passions, habits, and temptations, and submit himself to an authority figure that helps him gain control over them. The Bible says we are to crucify the flesh daily. This is painful to the flesh because the flesh desirers a certain level of comfort and complacency, but when we bring this flesh under subjection then we are able to attain a level of wisdom.

to perceive the words of understanding;

3) understanding: biynah’. (bee-nah) Biynah is the simple ability to know right from wrong. Its root meaning is "to distinguish, to separate." Biynah is what Solomon prayed for at Gideon in 1 Kings 3:9 "... that I may discern between good and bad." Proverbs 4:7 says: “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.”

3 To receive the instruction of wisdom,

4) instruction of wisdom: sakal’. (sok-all) Sakal means successful prudence. It is more than knowing what is right. Sakal is doing what is right. It is the natural next-step after biynah. It means to prosper by dealing prudently, to have good success, and guide one’s affairs wittingly.

justice,

5) justice: tzedek. (tsed-dek) Tzedek is righteousness. It is the moral or legal right by which one may act in confidence. It is incorporated in the name Melchizedek.

and judgment,

6) judgment: mishpat’. (meesh-pot) Mishpat is a judicial verdict and its penalty. Mishpat is a clear discerning of the spirit and motive of other people and the spirits that are motivating them, and the levelheaded determination of how to treat them. It is knowing whom to include in one’s friendship, and whom to eliminate. Mishpat is having the forthrightness to give someone their due, and seeing the matter disposed rightly. This is equal to consciousness, which is the faculty that decides the lawfulness of our action as to what is right and what is wrong based absolutely upon judgment and not knowledge that has been taught. Titus 1:15 says “Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and believing is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.”

and equity;

7) equity: mesharim. (mesh-ah-reem) Mesharim, it suggests all the complexities of fairness. Meshar offers an attempt at evenness and concord. It is the peacemaker’s gift, the art of compromise striving to satisfy both parties in a dispute where neither is more at fault than the other. It is a call for agreement. Peacemaking. The word peacemaker is not just referring to be peaceable or the keepers of peace; however, it is talking about the ones that brings peace to an un-peaceable situation. Understand that a peacemaker is not a characteristic but a responsible activity belonging to every Christian