Proverbs 8:19 “Wisdom’s fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, and my revenue than choice silver.”
Throughout the book of Proverbs, wisdom occasionally brags on itself and unashamedly makes the strongest appeals for us to acquire wisdom. As one works through Proverbs 8, wisdom will tell over and over of the advantages and the benefits one will have as one acquires and applies wisdom. To help one make the decision to get wisdom, she gives common things to compare her with, and in verse 19, she wants you to compare her to the revenue of gold and of silver. Wisdom boasts that what she will bring to a person’s life is better than having all the gold of Fort Knox and is better than investing in a silver mine!
Let us ask a most important question. Why is wisdom so valuable to have? From the start of Proverbs to the very end wisdom tells that it provides life and how it protects a person from death! Proverbs 13:14 conveys it this way: “The teaching of the wise (one who has wisdom) is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death.”
Please hear the appeals of wisdom and start acquiring it with all urgency. As you do wisdom will bring multiple dividends to one’s life.
Are you investing in wisdom?
Ponder: sin always has a price tag, and one pays more than one could have ever imagined. Wisdom is so valuable that as one acquires and applies it to life it is priceless.
So, which will it be today – sin or wisdom?
Continue Strong by Investing In Wisdom,
And remember to DATE the Word