attain wisdom are prepared to exercise discernment, a term we will now (finally!) define. The vast majority of the Bible was written in one of two languages: Hebrew or Greek. Each of these languages has a word that may be translated as “discernment.” In Hebrew this word is bin. It appears almost 250 times in the Old Testament and is most commonly trans-lated into English as “insight” or “understanding.” It can mean to understand, consider, perceive, be prudent, or