Wisdom in the Heart Starts in the Mind

 

The following quote is by J.I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom, writing in their book, Guard Us, Guide Us:

“Wisdom in the heart starts in the mind and is thus about thinking and about learning and also about unlearning. One mark of a wise person, according to Proverbs, is that one is willing to accept instruction and correction and to learn to know things better than one does at the moment. The life of wisdom is a life of constant learning: constant evaluating, constant discerning, constant extension of one’s understanding. When David declares that his covenant-God leads and guides him along the right paths (Ps. 23:3), he means that God does this by getting him to think, and through thinking to understand, and through understanding to gain wisdom—and thus to discern the right path from wrong ones.”