The Need for Wisdom

How great is our need for true wisdom, yet we tend to walk in our own wisdom thinking it just grand.
Proverbs 3:7-8 - Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and depart from evil.  It will be health to your flesh and strength to your bones.
True wisdom is fearing God and fleeing evil.  The problem we face is found all the way back in Genesis 3 when Satan threw these words at Adam (male AND female), "You will not surely die.  For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Satan is the master of deceit.  He takes truth and coils just enough of a lie into it to make the lie appealing, but unrecognizable.  Here he told them truth - "You will know good and evil."  The lie was in the part that was most appealing, "You will be like God."  Which of God's true children doesn't want to be more like Him?  However, the truth was and is that they were already like God.  They knew good - Father God, and they knew evil - the serpent, but they only did and thought what was good, because they WERE like God - made in His very image and carrying His breath in their bodies.
When they ate of the tree, they became confused, because in disobedience they allowed evil to enter their perfect and purely good hearts.  Those hearts became corrupted with evil and confusion set in.  Where the lines of good and evil were clearly distinct before, now they had become blurred and confusing.  They still are today, making us critical of God and His work in our lives.
There was another truth spoken in the words of Satan though.  He just didn't realize what he was saying.  "You will not surely die."  Now Satan was speaking of physical death, and he was correct, they did not physically die.  Spiritually they became dead in less than an instant.  However, they would not SURELY die, because God had the antidote waiting to be poured out on all creation to give back the eternal life we were created to bear - His breath, His life, His blood - poured out on the cross for any who would to receive.  He gave us back what we threw away.
Esau's life is a picture of this.  He threw away his birthright for a bite of stew, just as we threw away our birthright for a bite of fruit.  He took down an entire nation who still to this day worships Allah, who is a vindictive god who sets out to force people into compliance.
Adam took down the entire world, but God in His great mercy and love for us, gives us a way back in to His kingdom and family if we will simply accept His sacrifice, His blood, His life, His breath.
Thank You Father, for loving us so much as to be willing to die in our place.  You poured out Your blood on the cross to purify our hearts.  You gave us Your life so we wouldn't have to face spiritual death.  You gave us Your breath - Your Holy spirit - so we can breath easily again, see evil for what it is and flee from it straight into the goodness of Your loving arms.   I cannot thank You enough!!