Gentleness Is Born from Wisdom

James said that the wisdom of the world is self-absorbed and destructive; it is full of envy and boasting. The wisdom of the world is problematic because it causes conflict and so it sets us up against one another. But the wisdom from above sets us on a different path. This wisdom from God is: pure, peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy. In Jesus, wisdom from above meets wisdom from below so that everyone can see which is which and we can hear the God’s invitation for us to say yes to God and let wisdom be born from our gentleness.