Seeking an understanding
Prov (NIV) 2:1 My son, if you accept my words
and store up my commands within you,
2 turning your ear to wisdom
and applying your heart to understanding —
3 indeed, if you call out for insight
and cry aloud for understanding,
4 and if you look for it as for silver
and search for it as for hidden treasure,
5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD
and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the LORD gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7 He holds success in store for the upright,
he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
8 for he guards the course of the just
and protects the way of his faithful ones.
The second verse, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding—I have one ear from which I hear better than the other. I will be on the phone with my sister and say, “Wait, let me switch to my good ear,” to which she always replies, “Carol, you don’t have a good ear.”
Today’s reading calls for me to turn my good ear to wisdom, to search for it and then store it in my heart. Wisdom is more than knowledge. Wisdom is having an insight, an understanding into Who God is and Who we are in Him.
I think I know Who God is, and after all of these years I know who I am in Him—I am a child of the One, True and Living God, a child of the King. I was made in His image, and my desire is to walk with Him all the days of my life, to love Him more, and to see others through His eyes.
May you and I walk together as we seek out God’s understanding as though it were treasure, receiving His promises that He will protect the ways of His faithful ones.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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