Proverbs 2:1-6 - "My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,
2 turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding—
3 indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,
4 and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,
5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
You gain wisdom from the knowledge and understanding that the Lord gives. Yet, you must diligently seek it. This does not come by chance. It is not something that the Lord just drops on our lap. We must actively seek it. It will require effort. It comes from a great desire to know the Lord. It comes from a great love for the things of the Father. It is developed as we spend time in God's Word, with God and His people. Finally wisdom comes progressively over many years. Yet, it only when we see Christ face to face will we have the fulness.
The author says that wisdom will enable us to understand the fear of the Lord. More simply stated it instill in us the fear of the Lord. The fear of the Lord is the beginning and end of wisdom. We know someone is when he fears the Lord. This means a wise person will live as Christ lived and think as Christ thinks. Love as Christ loves.
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