Wisdom Before Riches

Daily Devotions:

“Choose my instruction rather than silver,
and knowledge rather than pure gold.
For wisdom is far more valuable than rubies.
Nothing you desire can compare with it.”

- Proverbs 8:10-11

No amount of money or jewels is more valuable than a strong character, integrity, or sound wisdom. Making a wise decision brings about many good things. Choosing to stay faithful to your wife builds integrity, as well as building your love for your wife (like reinforcing a steel door). Every action taken in wisdom is can be either compared to well maintenance of an engine, or the “upgrading” of one. This allows the person to continue on, doing well, for a very long time. Just like a well kept car. But a decision or action taken on just a feeling alone, without wisdoms guidance, is compared to a person who never lifts a finger to make sure his car is in at least operational condition. This will eventually lead to many car failures, and possibly even to the driver’s death, or someone else’s.

Wisdom – good judgment, insight, and understanding, should come before money, fame or popularity, and pleasure. It leads to a healthy and purposeful long life. The pleasures from a life lived wisely is better than living a life filled with luxuries. For the value is great.

I need to live a life that is wise. I must seek for the understanding of God and his insights into my life and the decisions that I’ll have to make in the future, as well as the present. Money, social status, and pleasure should not ever come before being wise. God says that if we need wisdom, if we need to know what to do, that all we need to do is ask him and expect an answer. Trust God. How? By just doing what He says. This alone shows God that you trust him, and will allow your relationship with him to grow as well.

Thanks for reading todays “Daily Devotion.” I hope that it was of some help, though it was pretty short today.

- istyles