Today’s Big Question:
Is getting wisdom a top priority in your life?
Today’s Scripture: Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is supreme—so get wisdom.
And whatever else you get, get understanding.
Other verses mentioned in the episode:
I love those who love me,
and those who search for me find me. (Proverbs 8:17)
Happy is a man who finds wisdom
and who acquires understanding,
for she is more profitable than silver,
and her revenue is better than gold.
She is more precious than jewels;
nothing you desire can equal her. (Proverbs 3:13-15)
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and instruction. (Proverbs 1:7)
“The NIV clarifies the force of that: “Though it cost you all you have, get understanding.” If you want God’s wisdom, it will cost you. It will cost you all your preconceived ideas about how life is supposed to work. Why pay that price? Because God’s wisdom will make you alive (v. 4), his wisdom will “keep” you and “guard” you (v. 6), his wisdom will “exalt” you and “honor” you and crown you with beauty (v. 8, 9). That is how life really works and that is a life worth living! Who else can promise you that? Every day we are being told that if we want to live we need to be young, thin, tanned, sexually active, rich, and smart-mouthed. There is our cultural ideal, the wisdom of our age. Just one question. Is it working?...Name one person who has thrown themselves into that kind of life and come away from it with what you want for yourself. Name one. And how do you explain 2,000 years of all types of people from different cultures who set their hearts on Christ, turned to his wisdom in the Bible, and found fullness of life?...Whichever you choose, it will cost you all you have.” - Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
If you want a place to see and answer the questions I ask in the episode and to keep track of the discoveries you make as we study Proverbs, we include a set of free journal pages for this devotional series in each of our Sunday emails
Free journal pages to follow the study: www.getwisdom.link/email
