Is it you that knows all the answers? If the mind is given rein it will ponder unending. What sponsors your restraint of thinking or are you perhaps delighted in the process of constant query? Why does God conceal wisdom, hiding the marrow of logic deeply inside conundrum, puzzle and riddle? Is it really that hard to gain relief to the pestering questions frustrating the contemplative? Perhaps it is God’s greatest irony and a masterful reward for those who will not just hear but listen and respond to His direction. That the answer to life’s seemingly most difficult questions is freely given for the asking.
Proverbs 2 is a specific path to wisdom and understanding. This simple road map is a step by step recipe for discovering answers and comes with neither ambiguity nor deception. I often hear people exclaim that do not seek the Word of God because it is so difficult to understand or that there are so many interpretations. I think these arguments are “smoke-screen” for the true root of the problem which is that we are at our nature, rebellious. If you seek answers the following is a direct path to answer, but comes with a caution and that is at the end of the path you will find a Loving Father that you have barely if ever really known. If you follow this visibly illuminated path you will come to knowledge and then you will have the fortunate choice of converting that information into power by applying it to make solid decisions about past missteps and future direction.
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.
7 He holds success in store for the upright,
he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
8 for he guards the course of the just
and protects the way of his faithful ones.
9 Then you will understand what is right and just
and fair—every good path.
10 For wisdom will enter your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11 Discretion will protect you,
and understanding will guard you.
12 Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men,
from men whose words are perverse,
13 who have left the straight paths
to walk in dark ways,
14 who delight in doing wrong
and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
15 whose paths are crooked
and who are devious in their ways.
16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,
from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
17 who has left the partner of her youth
and ignored the covenant she made before God.
18 Surely her house leads down to death
and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
19 None who go to her return
or attain the paths of life.
20 Thus you will walk in the ways of the good
and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will live in the land,
and the blameless will remain in it;
22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
and the unfaithful will be torn from it.
Your Word is clear, honest and true. It brings light to the darkest corner. I need not ponder for every answer is right there for my asking just as You have promised. I delight in wisdom and thank you for understanding. Jesus be praised for the gifts of freedom, peace and eternal relationship with Almighty God. Amen.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/surprise-we-voted-for-gods-judgment/ I understand why people don’t want to know the truth, because it really stings.
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