15.16 WALK – Walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise

The next verse exhorts us to walk circumspectly or wisely – not as fools but as wise.

(Ephesians 5:15)
15 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise…

Before we had the life of Christ, our understanding was darkened. We walked in the futility of our minds. In other words, we walked as fools. We followed the passions of the flesh and we did not consider spiritual priorities.

(Eph 4:17)
17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God…

But as believers who have the life of Christ, our understanding is now enlightened. We have the Spirit of wisdom and revelation to open the eyes of our understanding. We can walk in wisdom that the Spirit gives.

Let me share a very important truth about walking in wisdom. We cannot walk in wisdom until we have learnt to sit. Most Christians try to walk without sitting. They end up trying to walk in their own wisdom that comes from self – be it their experience, or their education, or what they have seen in their years of ministry, etc. A person who is steep in human wisdom will naturally reject the wisdom of God when God releases a new revelation. In all the wisdom of the learned Pharisees, they missed Jesus. In all the wisdom of Saul (Paul), he persecuted the church of God.

To sit well, we need to rest in the fact that wisdom is a person. Jesus is our wisdom.

(1 Cor 1:30)
30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us WISDOM from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption—

And Jesus lives in us. So wisdom lives in us. The Spirit of wisdom works in us and the Bible declares that we have the mind of Christ. When we rest in the reality of Christ in us, and when we depend on the Holy Spirit, we begin to walk in true wisdom, which is of God.