Proverbs 2:10-20 – 10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11 Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you. 12 Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse, 13 who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways, 14 who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil, 15 whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words, 17 who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God. 18 Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead. 19 None who go to her return or attain the paths of life. 20 Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.
People are so quick to rush into evil or to chase after it. We see it all around us and it can be mind blowing at times. It makes sense though, when you realize that wisdom comes from the Lord and without out it we becomes easy pickens for the evil one.
Proverbs 2:6 – 6 For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
We have always heard the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. It is repeatedly in the bible.
Job 28:8, Psalm 111:10, Proverbs 1:7, Proverbs 9:10, Proverbs 15:33, Isaiah 11:2, Isaiah 33:6, & Micah 6:9.
What I have found amazing is the more you seek God and His wisdom, the less you fear. Obviously we are to have a reverent respectable fear. Not an impersonal scary or else fear. God wants you to love, obey and respect Him like a Father, not fear Him like prison guard.
The more you seek Him, the more wisdom you get. The more wisdom you get, the more you understand Him. The more you understand Him, the more you understand you and all the fallen problems that surround you.
Seeking God finds wisdom.
Matthew 6:33 – 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
I always looked at this verse as make God first and all the things that humans chase after and worry about will be there anyway. Make no mistake the verses leading up to 33 indicate that very well, but it now means even more to me. Seeking the wisdom and Kingdom first not only pleases God and He provides our needs, Glory be to God as I vouch He always does, but it brings with it the comfort of knowing what’s important and what’s not also.
I don’t have the desire to completely chase after the world anymore, because of the wisdom God has shared with me, not just because it exists on the don’t list. Seeking the wisdom of Truth, led me to Jesus. Finding Jesus and God, has led me from seeking me to seeking Him. Wow. When we seek ourselves is does some serious spiritual blindness, I will vouch for that. Seeking God first and not yourself is the only eye salve that works on that blindness.