Can wisdom be possessed?

I like books, I buy them all the time, but it never occurs to me to go to a library and check one out. I would have to give it back and then if I liked it I would just buy it anyway, so what's the use? If anyone could become wise or possess great wisdom simply by reading books that contain wisdom, I would be a wise man indeed, but I'm not. Why is that?

I don't think wisdom can be possessed in the same way that I own books and it is far easier to write wise things and to think wise things than it is to live with wisdom. Wisdom comes from abiding in the Lord, it comes from doing what Paul says, to pray without ceasing, the way of abiding. He is the source of wisdom and I can't truly possess it. It is like the electric supply to my house, I get to enjoy its benefits so long as I am connected to it but if not, I am in the dark.

As the circumstances of my life change, my need for wisdom changes. New challenges come up all the time with job, family and relationships and I find that I can't always go back to what I have done before or some concept I have learned or read. Repeating "serenity now" doesn't work for example. (See Seinfeld)

I see Jesus living wisely and it is primarily because He didn't reduce people or situations to formulas, "Here is a blind man, this is what you do." He treated every situation as unique and was always able to answer wisely when confronted. I know He was God but there are certain things He laid down to become man and in that He knew better than we ever seem to know that if He was going to be man He better stay plugged into the source of wisdom if He was going to get safely to His destiny, the cross. Strange destination and it seems even stranger to think it required wisdom to get there, but think about the alternative destinations proposed for him by others and what was accomplished at the cross and you will see what I mean.