Proverbs Day 4

Read:
Pro 2:1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
Pro 2:2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
Pro 2:3 yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
Pro 2:4 if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,
Pro 2:5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.

These verses are telling us how precious wisdom is in our lives. Its teling us that if we seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasure. That tells us the importance we must place on obtaining these things. Like in "Fools Gold" they are seeking for a treasure, and they do whatever they must do to get it and when they do get it, they do all they can to protect it. When it's found it is like winning the lottery. All of their hard work and seeking for the treasure finally pays off. We should feel the same about obtaining wisdom and understanding, we should seek and hold it close to our hearts, for when we are able to use it will be worth far more than any earthly treasure we may obtain.


What do you learn from marking Lord?

How does this fit with Proverbs 1:7
Pro 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

We only have beginning knowledge when we fear the Lord. Without the fear of the Lord we will never gain knowledge and wisdom.


now read:
Pro 2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
Pro 2:7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
Pro 2:8 guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.
Pro 2:9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
Pro 2:10 for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
Pro 2:11 discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you,
Pro 2:12 delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,
Pro 2:13 who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
Pro 2:14 who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil,
Pro 2:15 men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
Pro 2:16 So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
Pro 2:17 who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;
Pro 2:18 for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed;
Pro 2:19 none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.
Pro 2:20 So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.
Pro 2:21 For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,
Pro 2:22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.



List the benefits of seeking wisdom as a treasure?

It is so obvious the benefits of seeking wisdom. This lets you know he us is our shield. The wisdom we seek is not in vain or a waist of time, but something that protects and guards us and keeps us walking straight.
My Prayer: Lord we thank you for your word. Your word that leads us through everyday of our life. Your word that helps shield our lives with the full armour of God. Being able to use to help us through our dialy lives, to help us witness to the lost and hurting, to strengthen us when we are week, to comfort us when we are hurting. I pray that each of us will seek that wisdom everyday, and that we will treasure it and use it everyday. We thank you for your word.
Amen

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