Seeking Wisdom
Search for wisdom as you would search for silver or hidden treasure. Proverbs 2:4
Most people have, at the very least, the desire to go out and "make a living." Whether that "living" is a good one or not, there are relatively few truly lazy people that would rather sit on their butts than help their family eat. So we'll make the assumption that most people make some effort to search out money.
Proverbs 2:4 compares our search for money to how we SHOULD BE seeking to gain wisdom. Wisdom is NOT simply knowledge of something you didn't previously have.
The definition of Wisdom has three facets and without all three of these, you do not gain wisdom.
In our world where people get paid to be dysfunctional on television for our entertainment and we get news from soundbites or posts on Facebook, wisdom is getting harder to obtain. The days of critical thinking have almost been wiped away.
It's time we turned off the TV once in a while and read a non-fiction book. It's time we sit down with someone older (and wiser) and soaked up some real wisdom from a person who has been there and done that. It's time we stop listening to the advertisements that tell us that it's time to upgrade because what we have just isn't good enough.
Let's seek out Wisdom (Experience, Knowledge and Judgment) with the same passion that most of us seek out money.
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