Prevailing Proverbs - WISDOM part 12

Prevailing Proverbs - WISDOM part 11

Hello everyone, this is Pastor Joe here from the Helping You Become podcast. Bless you for tuning in. Here's a summary of our latest episode, Part 10 of Prevailing Proverbs, drawn from Proverbs chapter 3.

We dove into verses 13-20, exploring how skilful and godly wisdom—drawn from God's Word and life's experiences filtered through Scripture—is far more valuable than silver, gold, or rubies. Nothing we can wish for compares to it! In Solomon's time, silver and gold were as common as stones in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 1:15), traded daily as money. Yet, the writer declares wisdom surpasses these precious commodities, which God claims as His own (Haggai 2:8).

This wisdom brings length of days in its right hand, and riches and honour in its left. Its ways are highways of pleasantness and paths of peace—a powerful promise for a nation once afflicted and enslaved for 400 years (Genesis 15:13). Wisdom is a tree of life to those who grasp it.

We then saw how the Lord used wisdom to found the earth, establish the heavens, and break up the deeps (verses 19-20). This opens us to incredible possibilities in Christ: who can we become, and what can we achieve with godly wisdom?

To access this, we turn to Jesus, who is made our wisdom from God (1 Corinthians 1:30). Study the Bible, let the Word dwell richly in you (Colossians 3:16-17), and do everything in Jesus' name. This masters our finances, health, society, and unlocks potential with God as partner.

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