What’s the greatest asset you can think of in life?

Of course, obvious answers to the above question could include things such as: money, investments, stocks, pension, house, etc. 

All of the above could be described as fruit of the greatest asset you need in life: wisdom. 

Let me tell you why I think that wisdom is the greatest asset you should desire to always have. 

Wisdom gives you understanding

Your understanding, as a result of wisdom, allows you to experience the following:

• First, you will experience a sense of mastery. You’ll acquire the know-how of things in life. 
• Second, you become emotionally stable. This is a result of knowing what is going on in and around you. This is related to self-awareness. 

Wisdom helps you with discernment

• Wisdom gives you awareness of not only what’s going on in you, but also around you.
• It aligns your own perception of life with who you truly are.
• As a result of awareness and a new perception of life, you acquire sound judgment. You are able to make good decisions, which take you places where you should be in life. 

Wisdom gives you good experience

• Good experience does not only come from reading about other people. It comes from exposure.
• Exposure implies three things: observation, participation and learning. It is by doing so that you can gain good experience.
• In order to acquire good experience, you’ve got to get out of your box. You have to go where you’ve never been before. That’s the only way you gain wisdom.  

Also, remember that wisdom is not something we are born with. We earn it over time and by intentionally choosing to acquire it. You also receive wisdom through prayer. Ask God to give it to you and God is faithful enough to do so.