SHINING STAR AND WISDOM

The Wisdom that we needed as a star that is meant to shine brightly in not resident in us as an individual but in God’s custody and so, we should never think that we are wise at all of our own volition. This is why Jesus Christ while on earth compared us to the weakest and most foolish animal on earth – SHEEP. A sheep cannot do anything on its own accord including a simple act of fending for food and water except the Shepherd directs it to places it can graze and drink.

Yet, even though God freely gives us this WISDOM TO SUCCEED, He expects us to demonstrate our sincere need for it by asking for it – this should be by asking persistently until you receive it.

James 1:5 states that: “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”

Wisdom is required in every area of your life. Your rate of success in any given area is a function of the level of wisdom you have in that given area of life. Wisdom is a very important tool for victory: It is better than weapons of war. If you have this wisdom in question, you may not need weapons.

You should know that you may have all the latest gadget and armoury that you need for a battle but still lose the battle if you lack wisdom. This is why the bible refers to it as the PRINCIPAL THING. “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding” (Proverb 4:7). Therefore friends, the first thing you need to acquire is WISDOM and continually request for more of it as there is never an OVERDOSE OF WISDOM!

As students, there is INTELLECTUAL WISDOM. Those who pass examinations with distinctions are not necessarily the most knowledgeable in those subjects but it could be that they are wiser intellectually than all their other contemporaries are in their class.

There are simple success skills that the most successful apply that put them ahead of their contemporaries. Therefore, if you must excel, you must acquire all those skills. Many students end up failing their examinations not because they have not paid the price of studying but because they lack the wisdom for academic success.

The skill to write West Africa Secondary School Certificate examinations for instance is quite very different from that required to pass the Joint Admission Matriculation Board examinations. In WAEC, you answer the questions as if you are a teacher stating out the step-by-step guide in the way you answer the questions such that your examiner is now your student (you should create an imaginative impression that you are a teacher teaching an invincible student in your examiner).

Whereas in JAMB, you need to develop your own skills – something like a short cut for you to arrive at the answers (no one is interested in whether those skills are crude or modern; what is required is accuracy under limited timing).

In addition, you need to cultivate the habit of buying and reading different numbers of books on salient and relevant topics and areas of life: specifically, study them hard intensively – by burning the mid-night oil in the process and apply all the good principles learnt into your life. There is a popular saying that says that the number of questions you have come across during the course of your study that you are able to solve shows how experienced you are in life.

God has WISDOM TIPS FOR SUCCESS. He has the most sophisticated and simplest success strategies for all areas. Therefore, you are strongly advised to go back to ask Him in prayers for it and am sure He will surely give you liberally because He is interested in your success as a “SHINING STAR!”

Regards!