What Does Proverbs Say For Today Part 6

 

What Does Proverbs Say For Today Part 6

 

Benefits of Wisdom

“To know wisdom and instruction, to perceive (understand or discern) the words of understanding, to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, judgment, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion—a wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel, to understand a proverb and an enigma, the words of the wise and their riddles. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, But whoever listens to me will dwell safely, and will be secure (at ease), without fear of evil. For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding; He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk uprightly; He guards the paths of justice, and preserves the way of His saints. Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path. When wisdom enters your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you, to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things, from those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness; who rejoice in doing evil, and delight in the perversity of the wicked; whose ways are crooked, and who are devious in their paths; to deliver you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words, who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her GOD. For her house leads (sinks) down to death, and her paths to the dead; none who go to her return, nor do they regain (Lit. reach) the paths of life—so you may walk in the way of goodness, and keep to the paths of righteousness. For the upright will dwell in the land, and the blameless will remain in it; but the wicked will be cut off (destroyed) from the earth (land), and the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.” (Proverbs 1:2-7a, 33; 2:6-22)

 

These 25 verses say everything there is to say about the benefits of wisdom: The blessings of GOD and protection from evil. So what are they: increased learning ability, the ability to understand wise counsel, the ability to understand what others do not, the ability to live safe and secure not fearing evil.

 

This last one seems impossible many believers get sick and injured, many die prematurely, many face financial ruin and poverty, in life everything that happens to non-believers happens to believers. The verses say that GOD gives knowledge and understanding and He stores up wisdom for the upright and that these will deliver us from all the evils of humanity. But that doesn’t seem to be our reality, why? Because GOD is always speaking eternally; we live in a linear time reality that GOD created for us, GOD is not constrained by this linear time reality and everything He does and says is eternal. This is part of the knowledge of who GOD is and the understanding of how things work in His Kingdom, we are made eternal spiritual beings in a mortal (time bound) body which will pass away; GOD told us in Genesis 3:19, “In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.” or as it’s put in Hebrews 9:27-28, “And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, so CHRIST was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.” We have to stop thinking about GOD and His Kingdom in the linear time reality that we live our mortal life in.

 

JESUS said that if we are one with Him then we are one with the Father as He is one with the Father. He said this while He was alive in the flesh and He said that His life in the flesh was to do the will of His Father. He told us that if we are in Him then no one nor anything could take us from the Father, He also told us in Deuteronomy 31:6, “Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your GOD, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.” and in Hebrews 13:5-6, “Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”  Remember JESUS said the only one we need to fear is the one who can destroy the flesh and the soul and cast us into hell; GOD. (Study Matthew 5:11-12, 10 7-31; Luke 12:4-7, 49-53; John 4:31-38, 10:14-15, 15:18-21, 17)

 

And there are dozens more verses in Proverbs that speak of the benefits of Wisdom 3:1-4, 13-26, 32-35; 4:1-13,18, 20-27; 5:1-2, 7; 6:20-24; 8:6-21, 35; 10:8, 13-14, 17, 19, 23; 11:12; 12:1; 13:15-16; 14:6, 8, 24, 29; 15:21, 24, 31; 16:22; 27:27; 18:4; 21:11; 22:18-19, 21; 24:3-4, 13-14; 27:11; 28:2; 29:3, 18.

 

In Ecclesiastes 2:12-13 Solomon sums up his experience with wisdom and foolishness, “Then I turned myself to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what can the man do who succeeds the king?—only what he has already done. Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness.”