Intuition

On Our Show Infect Truth, we discussed the attributes of Wisdom and what the Bible says of Wisdom. It was quite illuminating. However, there was also a brief discussion of Intuition, which is what I'd like to focus on here. First Webster definition of  Intuition is:
 
a natural ability or power that makes it possible to know something without any proof or evidence : a feeling that guides a person to act a certain way without fully understanding why: something that is known or understood without proof or evidence

The Free Dictionary describes it this way:

1. a. The act or faculty of knowing or sensing without the use of rational processes, immediate cognition. 

    b. Knowledge gained by the use of this faculty; a perceptive insight.

2. A sense of something not evident or deducible; an impression.

I read a writer once who wrote that their are five types of intuition, He referred to them as follows:

Prophetic, Intellectual, Heart, Gut, and Hand. 

However, this writer believes they are all one in the same. 

Where does Intuition come from? 

During our discussion on wisdom, it became clearer to me that intuition is something each of us is born with, placed in us by God at our creation and activated by faith and wisdom. 

When I was younger, I would hear my intuition, but think I knew best or simply ignored it (which most of do) and those situations did have good outcomes. One day, after deciding that I would listen to that inner voice instead of doing it my way, I had a very different outcome. Through trial and error I have discovered that when I follow my intuition, I never go wrong and when I deviate from it, I mess up every time. Needless to say, I follow it always now, even when it does not seem to make sense.  

I believe intuition is something that guides us through life to help us make good decisions and maneuvers. God looks out for us, but, if we would just lean toward his plan for us and not fight and stop giving in to our own egos, we would have a much easier time of it. Yes, God made us in his image, but it is up to us to develop a mind like his. This requires quiet time with him through prayer and meditation and the study of his word. This is where the wisdom comes from in the spiritual sense. It is good to have earthly wisdom, but we should be striving for more. We need spiritual wisdom to survive in both this realm and the next.  

Here are some Wisdom references from the bible. There are many others but these are the ones we discussed: Proverbs 2:1-6, Proverbs 3:13-24, proverbs 4:5-9, Proverbs 5:1-2, Proverbs 7:4. Next week will continue our discussion with Proverbs 8:22-36. I invite you to join us every Thursday 8 - 9:30 pm est. on WDGP Radio.

Wisdom  (ˈwɪzdəm)

  Noun

1. the ability or result of an ability to think and act utilizing knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense, and insight

2. accumulated knowledge, erudition, or enlightenment

3. archaic  a wise saying or wise sayings or teachings

4. obsolete  soundness of mind

Everyone says that with age comes wisdom, this is not always true. Just like the saying “commonsense isn’t common”, neither is wisdom. Often Folk continue to make the same mistakes over and over and then wonder about the outcomes. Even when a truly wise person gives advice, it is rarely heeded. My Father use to say that he wanted us to learn from his mistakes so we would not fall into the same holes he had. Of course, we never took his advice, even though, he was very often correct about our outcomes. This is a strange and human phenomenal that I think results from the need to forge our own individual paths in life.  

Most would agree that it would wonderful to avoid the pitfalls of life but still we refuse to accept wise advice that could prevent at least some of them. I, myself am personally guilty of this. There have been times that I have not heeded wise advice, even from my own wisdom when the very consequence I hoped to avoid was the result. I do not claim to know the reason for this but I aspect it comes back to the ‘Let me try it this way and see” approach as opposed to the “Let me heed the wise advice and prevent trouble” approach to life. We always think we can do it better or smarter than someone else. Some of it maybe ego, we want to win our way as opposed to the tested way. Then too, everyone’s experience is truly not the same, for instance, two children can be born into the same environment but will grow up with different attitudes, abilities and morals.  As well as two children born in different environments can  grow and have the same attitudes, abilities and morals.

It would be a nice thing if we could embrace and implement the wisdom of Fathers and Mothers, but then again, maybe not. Would we have the desired outcomes for ourselves, would they all be right for us? I say not. I say as I did before that we must each make our own mistakes and learn our own lessons. The key is to learn the lesson so we do not duplicate the mistake. So it appears to me that my wisdom will always be different from your wisdom, each being personal to each of us and that is my wisdom.

   

 Proverbs 2:10

    For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will fill you with joy.