Short story: Wisdom. When is wisdom really wisdom?

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John Johnstone was not a wise man. There seemed to be very little real wisdom in him at all. He could not talk wisely, off of the cuff. All of his wisdom was prepared, second-hand, wisdom. He did look wise, though. He looked the part. And yet, he could write articles for his church's newsletter, that were always full of great wisdom. "The wisdom came through him, but was not contained in him," was his explanation. He further said that: "He was an open channel for the wisdom of God, and his soul, to pour itself through him, through his writings." "We are not a house for wisdom to reside in, but a hose through which it can flow." "Flowing wisdom is real wisdom. Housed wisdom is dead wisdom, imprisoned by your mind." "Let the wisdom of your soul flow through your mind to experience real wisdom passing through you." "All wisdom, though, that passes through you, leaves its mark in you too." This was his explanation for the life that he had lived. John died, and his soul went into Heaven, but God told him that he had made John live his life all back-to-front. It was not his, God's, nor John's soul's, or anyone else's wisdom, for that matter, that John was supposed to live from, but the acquired wisdom of experience, gained through his own experiences. Channelled wisdom is always distanced from the channeler, who passes it through, but the channeler never grows any wiser by/from it himself. John had lived a life of essentially nongrowth for himself then, and his soul has stagnated too, as it just passed back what it already knew as wisdom, and never acquired any new wisdom from John's life for it, either. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com John looked the part. He looked wise, but his wisdom was passed down wisdom, not lived wisdom.