The Wisdom Of Solomon

Ministers are in the curious position of needing to minister not by sight, but by faith. This means that if, in ministry, one decides things only on the basis of evidence, then one becomes a mere politician, a mere therapist, a damp squib. It is in the nature of ministry that one needs to decide important things without evidence -- which the Bible calls discernment, wisdom, faith, power, and so on. Solomon's famous decision with regard to two women was like this -- he took it without having firm evidence in hand. Yet I have not read one commentary that said: "Where was his evidence?" Rather it is called "the wisdom of Solomon". OBSERVATION: This should not, however, be misunderstood. What one employs should, by faith, be better than sight, not merely an absence of evidence or worse, a contradiction of evidence.