We adore children and animals because we are amused by the simplicity of their thinking. We recognize that they possess a consciousness, but we also recognize that it is still forming. Higher consciousness is obtained as we gain skill
at integrating numerous categories of information.
A person's body or age is not always a good gauge of a person's consciousness. This is because wisdom is NOT the possession of knowledge, it is the skill to use the knowledge one possesses. This is an important distinction, because we have
seen children who possess only a few categories who blow us away with their insight and wisdom. We have also seen mature people who lack wisdom despite having much knowledge.
The difference is in HOW we think. Not WHAT we think.
Wisdom is HOW. Knowledge is
WHAT.
Wisdom is Function. Knowledge is Form.
Wisdom is logical, yet distinct from logic.
Wisdom doesn't come from creation, Creation come from wisdom. (Prov 8:22)
Have you ever wondered why some people just can't talk about politics or religion? Some people align themselves, and even define themselves by certain categories. Knowledge is information, and most of us are drawn to its gravitational force. This can be a very good thing. But wisdom is something else and has its own
gravity. In scripture this was referred to as "glory." Wisdom goes beyond the facts and has a long view of what is behind them. Wisdom sees implications. "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts." ~ Isaiah 55:9
We all intuitively know that there is a thing behind the
thing. The non-physical realities are always manifesting in the physical world. Just like mathematics. Numbers are not physical, they are non-physical abstractions that are fixed and reliable and not created by man, yet everything we touch was built with them. Wisdom is like this. God is like this.
The moment we become good with the integration of physical and non-physical categories, is the moment
we gain a third thing, wisdom. This juncture of these seemingly opposite worlds is call spirit. The word and the flesh always coincide. (John 1:1) They dwell together, they dwell among us, We are both word and flesh. We are all spiritual.
So when Christians talk about Jesus, the "God-man" they are getting at something amazing. Unfortunately, far too many only want to focus on the
"What" of Jesus and not the "How". Some have the form, others have the function. Many will drill into us a 2000 year old story as if the story had the power. The story is a what, it is but a single container, a single category. Your life is also a container. A category. If you can see this difference, you can see the difference between "how" and "what."
If you
have ever been in a religious argument, it was certainly a battle over the "What". Early consciousness is always concerned with "What." How is skill. How is wisdom. How is the higher category. If we begin to look at the world through that lens, we begin an amazing spiritual journey.
Once we get the "How", the "What's" take care of themselves. If we strive after the "what's" we will certainly miss the
"how's".
If this is a bit confusing, may I invite you to listen to my recent podcast that gets at this from a totally different way. 
