Year 5, Day 293: Proverbs 2

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Discipleship Focus: Information

• Information: This is the initial phase of become a disciple of Jesus.  Before we can do anything meaningful we must begin to understand what we are doing.  We may never gain full understanding of God and His ways, but God calls us to study Him, His Son, and His ways as the foundation of being His follower.

The overflowing message of Proverbs 2 is pretty straightforward.  Seek wisdom.  But make sure that we hear that message to its full depth.  It isn’t just about wisdom.  Yes, wisdom is great.  But it isn’t just about wisdom.  We can’t just want wisdom and pray for it and get it.

We need to seek after wisdom.  We need to pursue it.  We need to chase after it.  This psalm is about us being proactive.  Gaining wisdom doesn’t just happen.  Gaining wisdom is a choice that we make.

We incline our ear to wisdom.  We raise our voice and call out so that those who have it can teach it to us.  The Lord stores up wisdom; we look to Him to release that store.  So many people think that they will get wise just by getting old.  No.  We get wisdom because we intentionally look for it in others and then learn from them what it is.

As we would expect, information leads to imitation and imitation leads to innovation.  What this looks like with wisdom is pretty straightforward.  We learn what wisdom is from other people who have it.  As we learn it, we can imitate it and put it into practice in our life.  As we practice it, we get better – wiser.  As we get wiser, we can be better at innovating it into our life for others to see.

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