Proverbs 2:1-5 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 22:17 Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge,
Proverbs 5:1 My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,
Proverbs 4:5 Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 4:7 The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.
We live in an unprecedented era in which learning, and the acquisition of information have exploded beyond our wildest imagination. The world is virtually at our fingertips or voice command. Yet, we are none the better for our technological advances when it comes to possessing wisdom. Tragically, technology often pulls us downward into a vortex of darkness, and evil.
In the Hebrew language, the word “wisdom” means the skillful ability to use knowledge. Biblical knowledge, when employed rightly, always results in good for ourselves and others. Notice the high value the Bible places on wisdom. As “the principal thing,” the most important thing, we are to lay siege of godly wisdom and to do everything we can to acquire it. Why? Wisdom deciphers what we should allow into our lives, thereby forming our lifestyles and with it, we gain discernment and clear understanding—something that we often lack on our own.
In political circles, Democrats and Republicans don’t understand one another nor do husbands and wives in their marriages. In the animal kingdom, most cats and dogs can’t seem to get along either! However large or small our challenges are, we must resist the world’s dark, devilish, dangerous wisdom and instead grab hold of the great counterweight, the opposing force, the wisdom of God. “…the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy” (James 3:17).
The beautiful reality of God’s wisdom is that it’s best achieved when asked for. That’s right, the Bible tells us to ask God because He promises to grant it liberally (James 1:5). Rest assured; this dark age is no match for God’s wisdom. Give yourself fully to the Lord, my friend, and your life will be the better for it today. (Hibbs)
