Words of Inspiration by Paris Ducker
Proverbs 16:16 Acquire Wisdom – How Much Better It Is Than Gold! And Acquire Understanding – It Is Preferable To Silver! Have you remained true to your goals, commitments or resolutions for 2011? When you declared your lifestyle changes for this New Year, did you remember to include spiritual wisdom and godly insight? Is there a yearning to know more of God’s will for your life? Proverbs 16:16 reminds us that wisdom and understanding are much more valuable than gold or silver. Wisdom and understanding are not skills that can be purchased, but rather are God given abilities that enable us to make sensible decisions involving sound judgment. Those who possess wisdom and understanding are held in high esteem in both the business arena as well as in spiritual settings; they are also referred to as those who have mother wit, common sense, gumption, and discernment. Many of the highest posts in the land are held by those who have knowledge which solves many problems, a sage sense, and prudence in Many pledges handling finances.
In the same manner, when seeking for wisdom and understanding, various tools are needed. We are to study, dig and probe God’s Word and seek God’s will for our life with daily prayer and meditation. Proverbs 9:10 tells us “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.” Wisdom speaks to us in Proverbs 8:19 stating “my fruit is better than solid gold, and my harvest is better than silver.” Many pledges and guarantees including the promise of long life, enjoyment of good things, knowledge that will delight your heart, wisdom that will enter your mind and and guarantees understanding from the including the promise of long mouth of God. How There are many similariexciting are God’s promlife, enjoyment of good things, ties in searching for gold to us if we just obey knowledge that will delight your ises and silver and searching his Word and diligently heart, wisdom that will enter your seek wisdom and underfor wisdom, and understanding. When mining mind and understanding from the standing. With wisdom for gold and silver or and understanding, we are mouth of God. worldly wealth a person less likely to be caught up must have specific tools in foolishness, conflict, that allows him to study, dig, and probe in order to obtain deception, crooked paths and devious ways. Wisdom and the treasure they seek. Gold is a precious and highly valued understanding that is downloaded from God will guide us in metal. Silver is noble and an excellent reflector of light. the path of righteousness, prosperity, peace, understanding Mining for these involves a timely process which requires and the ability for creatively achieving wealth of gold and patience, persistence and determination. Although doing all silver. that is required to mine these earthly treasures, there is no guarantee of retrieving these gems. There is nothing wrong Let’s be doers of God’s Word and become spiritually with achieving monetary wealth, but it is not guaranteed wealthy beyond measure by obtaining wisdom and insight in today’s economic recession. But even in these times of that is everlasting. Acquire Wisdom – How Much Better It bad news, we STILL have God’s Word that gives us timely Is Than Gold! And Acquire Understanding – It Is Preferable instruction in being astute in achieving wealth. To Silver! ordinarypeoplemagazine.org | 35