2 Tune your ears to wisdom, and concentrate on understanding. 3 Cry out for insight and understanding. 4 Search for them as you would for lost money or hidden treasure. 5 Then you will understand what it means to fear the LORD, and you will gain knowledge of God.
Wisdom comes from God. Solomon instructs us to “tune our ears to wisdom and concentrate on understanding it. Cry out for insight and understanding.”
It is important to seek God to know His will and His way for our lives. Prayer is one of the avenues that we “seek” Him. Solomon tells us to cry out for insight. It is not enough to just ask… we need to cry out to Him. Sometimes our prayer time needs to be characterized by “intense seeking.”
Solomon tells us that we need to seek wisdom as we would lost money or treasures. The King James says, “If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures;” We spend a lot of time every day of our lives seeking treasures that do not last nor do they even satisfy. We work from “can to can’t” trying to have money in our pockets but we fail to search for and find the treasures that really satisfy the needs in our soul!
We are morally and spiritually bankrupt. Our lives are trying to cash checks that our soul cannot support! We may have money in the band but we have nothing in our person. There is no real joy and no lasting happiness in our lives.
The problem is we are looking in the wrong places for answers to the questions of life. When we look to God in His Word and in prayer, earnestly searching for wisdom, then God promises, you will understand what it means to fear the LORD, and you will gain knowledge of God.
There is nothing like experiencing God in all of His glory and all of His majesty. He is rich in His marvelous mercy to us and He will give us His grace as we seek to find Him in everything that we undertake to do.
Seek God in prayer and in His Word and you will understand what it means to fear the LORD, and you will gain knowledge of God.
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