Would you trade wisdom for a million dollars? Would you surrender all your wisdom for 30 million dollars? Is it worth it? Job, once rich, now poor, says NO:
“A miner puts an end to the darkness. He probes the deepest recesses for ore in the gloomy darkness. He cuts a shaft far from human habitation, in places unknown to those who walk above ground. Suspended from ropes, far from people, miners swing back and forth…. No bird of prey knows that path. No falcon’s eye has seen it… No lion has ever prowled over it. The miner strikes the flint and transforms the mountains at their foundations. He cuts channels in the rocks, and his eyes spot every treasure….”
“But where can WISDOM be found, and where is UNDERSTANDING located? No man can know its value… The ocean depths say ‘it’s not in me,’ while the sea declares, ‘I don’t have it.’ Gold cannot be exchanged for it, and silver cannot be paid for it. Treasures of fine gold cannot be traded for wisdom… The price of wisdom is beyond pearls… Where then does WISDOM come from, and where is UNDERSTANDING located? It is hidden from the eyes of EVERY living thing…”
“But GOD understands the way to wisdom, and He knows its location…. He says to mankind, ‘THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS WISDOM AND TO TURN FROM EVIL IS UNDERSTANDING.’” Job 28.
Job says wisdom is more valuable than ANY treasure—yet you will never find it on a treasure hunt. Even the deepest mine shaft will not contain it. So how can you get wisdom? “Fear the Lord and turn away from evil.”
OBEY FIRST—then you will gain the wisdom to understand WHY you must obey.
FAITH + OBEDIENCE = wisdom.
Consider friends who make bad choices: If you will not obey, you will NOT have wisdom—and you will not even understand that you lack wisdom—because you lack UNDERSTANDING.
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