As we move towards an answer as to what wisdom is for, I want us to notice that to relate to the source of that wisdom, God himself, requires a receptive heart that’s willing to be helped, on the one hand, and a listening heart that’s ready to be an agent of his helpfulness on the other. That’s because this helpful God seeks to touch our lives in two ways.
1) First by revealing to us how precious we are to him — so much so — that he seeks each of us out to be his unique friend.
C S Lewis suggested that while God has need of nothing, he created us with a need to be needed. Consequently, God must have, in some sense, “created” in himself something we can satisfy.
We could picture it as a room in his heart reserved for a unique friendship we were each created to have with him. That is to say, that each one of us stands to offer to God, in terms of intimate friendship, some enjoyment no other being in all creation can offer.
So if you really want to be who God wants you to be then first occupy that room in his heart that has your name emblazoned on the door. It is your exclusive place of fellowship with him. It is where you open your whole life up to him and tell him everything about your past, present, and future, your sins and shame, your thoughts and feelings, your joys and sorrows, your disappointments and frustrations, your everyday likes and dislikes, your hopes and longings, dreams and aspirations — everything.
Beyond amazing, you will notice that out of such intimacy will come messages so tender they border on being embarrassing: messages such as you are always being thought of, you are liked, you are wanted, you are being cared for, you are being enjoyed.
David writes of this in Psalm 139:17-18 (NLT)
“How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand!”
i.e., All the ways in which you consider me precious to you — if I tried to count them they would outnumber the grains of sand.
2) The second way God touches our life is when we realize he’s looking for coworkers to work with him in making more friends.
Here the accent falls on the preciousness and eternal wellbeing of our neighbor. As with us, he wants every man, woman, and child to become his unique friend and also cowork with him in making even more friends.
Such coworking with God to win him friends is what wisdom does. This, I suggest, is what wisdom is for, so we ask him to fill us with his wisdom.

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