Your Moment at the Well
The Lord’s insight. The practical affairs we face try to limit the Lord to the spiritual affairs we pursue.
Proverbs 1:1: “The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel.”
Proverbs 3:6: “In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.”
1 Kings 3:9: “Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil.”
It was a life-changing moment for me when I learned that there was never a moment when the Lord was not with me. It was hard enough for me to learn to live and to be spiritual when at church. I didn’t realize church was more than just a place I visited on Sundays.
I realized I did not know much about the Lord, and I didn’t know much about myself. I knew just enough about the Lord to be saved. I didn’t know I needed to then be saved enough to learn how to live with the Lord in all parts of my life. I made my salvation an event. Then I made church an event. I made prayer an event. I made reading scripture an event.
The problem with events is they happen and then we go on. I didn’t have the sense to know that I needed to know a lot more than I knew. Nothing in scripture made this clear to me. Now I know the Word of God cannot be treated like it is a book to read. It is a Life to know; it is a Life to teach us; it is a Life to guide us.
We have the book of Proverbs to help us understand how to discover and live with the wisdom and knowledge we need to bring the practical aspects of living under submission to our spiritual development and growth. King Solomon understood this when God asked him to ask what he wanted God to do for him.
Solomon asked for an understanding heart and not money. He asked for discernment and not talents. Solomon knew he didn’t know enough to lead himself let alone to lead other people. We know that God gave Solomon what he asked for and more. Solomon wrote the book of Proverbs.
I believe he wrote Proverbs so that we would all have access to the wisdom, knowledge and insight we need to live Godly lives in practical ways. Proverbs 1:1 tells us the proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel given to us so we can:
- Know wisdom and instruction (Proverbs 1:2). God wants us to live with wisdom and to be teachable in who we are.
- Perceive the words of understanding (Proverbs 1:2). God wants us to perceive truthful words of understanding that come from sources other than ourselves.
- Receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, judgment and equity (Proverbs 1:3-4). God wants us to learn to accept instructions more than we want to give instruction. He wants us to learn from knowing and doing what is right more than to learn from bad experiences.
- Give prudence to the simple while we are young (Proverbs 1:4). He wants us to receive knowledge and discretion (Proverbs 1:4). He wants this to happen before we become rooted in our own ways.
So, we have the Proverbs of Solomon so that we have a source to teach us how we should act, respond, react and live in a world that may not acknowledge God. Proverbs help us learn to draw our conclusions about matters of life from the things the Word teaches us more than from the things man says.
When we learn from wisdom we will know to listen when the Lord tells us “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.” The Lord does not want us to exclude Him from the practical affairs of our lives. When we don’t know any better, we cannot live any better.
A wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel. Proverbs help you know how little you know about how much more you need to know so that you live like a child of God being taught by the Word of God living in a world searching for the presence of God.
Thank God for giving us the book of Proverbs to be our practical guide and teacher and reminder and source of knowledge so that we can live today with wisdom and insight that would take us a lifetime to gain.
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