Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
Proverbs 3:13
Happy (blessed) will be the person who first finds wisdom. Many look and search for days and years on end for a way to live a blessed life. I am quite certain that wisdom has been shown to many and they turn their head and run in the other direction to get away from the very thing they are searching for. Those who heed wisdom’s call, they will be blessed. It sounds so simple, yet I myself ran for years from that which would have led me to happiness. Why is there happiness in such wisdom? It comes from God. Man’s deductions and philosophies are marred in the miry clay of his sin. They are formed on the potter’s wheel of iniquity. That which doesn’t have its origin from God will lead one further from the truth and nowhere near the blessed life. Proverbs 23:23 says, “Buy the truth and sale it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.” There is not one investment that can give such a rich return as when one invests in God’s Word. That person will be happy. After wisdom is found, we need to grab ahold of it and let it take ahold of us. We must not just simply and lazily look upon it, but we should drill deep into it and plumb its bountiful depths and gain understanding. From wisdom we gain understanding and when understanding is married to application, we grow in the Word of God and live out the way and will of God; all this is worked out through God the Holy Spirit, but we must come to the Word of God.
Proverbs 3:13
Happy (blessed) will be the person who first finds wisdom. Many look and search for days and years on end for a way to live a blessed life. I am quite certain that wisdom has been shown to many and they turn their head and run in the other direction to get away from the very thing they are searching for. Those who heed wisdom’s call, they will be blessed. It sounds so simple, yet I myself ran for years from that which would have led me to happiness. Why is there happiness in such wisdom? It comes from God. Man’s deductions and philosophies are marred in the miry clay of his sin. They are formed on the potter’s wheel of iniquity. That which doesn’t have its origin from God will lead one further from the truth and nowhere near the blessed life. Proverbs 23:23 says, “Buy the truth and sale it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.” There is not one investment that can give such a rich return as when one invests in God’s Word. That person will be happy. After wisdom is found, we need to grab ahold of it and let it take ahold of us. We must not just simply and lazily look upon it, but we should drill deep into it and plumb its bountiful depths and gain understanding. From wisdom we gain understanding and when understanding is married to application, we grow in the Word of God and live out the way and will of God; all this is worked out through God the Holy Spirit, but we must come to the Word of God.
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