Wisdom

"My son, keep my words and store up my commands with you. Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom, "You are my sister" and call understanding your kinsman; they will keep you from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words."
-Proverbs 7:1-5

I have come to the conclusion this week that though I pray daily for wisdom, I will never have it as long as I think I am becoming wise. A wise person would never claim wisdom; that would be foolish. No, a truly wise person doesn't just have the knowledge and life experience; they seek more. I don't think we will ever reach wisdom in comparison to someone like Solomon, but if we did we wouldn't know it. Being wise means you are humble. Being wise means you know your petty role. I seek wisdom, but I also seek to be like Christ. Just as we cannot achieve pure perfection as Jesus, I am skeptical we will ever achieve a maximum level of wisdom.
In my life testimony, I view it as a landscape. I have had valleys of course, and I have had mountain-like experiences. However, I can't help but think we are all going to be climbing the mountain for the rest of our life. And I think that is good. We should keep rising. We stop attaining wisdom when we plateau.
I really do want to gain wisdom in life. I have put myself in enough learning situations to be fairly wise already, but I hope I haven't missed it. Just know we may achieve a significant level of wisdom sometime in our life, but if we ever think we have become wise, we better re-evaluate. We won't ever have wisdom as long as we assume we have it.