“Wisdom calls aloud in the street,
she raises her voice in the public squares; at the head of the noisy streets
she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech: ‘How long will
you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery
and fools hate knowledge? If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have
poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts know to you. But since you
rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand,
since you ignored all of my advice and would not accept my rebuke, I in turn
will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you—when
calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a
whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.”
Wisdom is out there, waiting for us
to look for it. Proverbs 2:6 says that, “the Lord gives wisdom, and from His
mouth come knowledge and understanding.” We are given the opportunity to gain
this wisdom and the help that it brings us in making decisions every day, just
by asking for it. So many times we reject wisdom, not accepting wisdom when we
are rebuked. We allow our own way of thinking to dominate how we live, act, and
react to situations we find ourselves in. Instead of choosing to honor the Lord
with our actions, we choose to honor ourselves instead. Wisdom is merely a
prayer away, waiting for us to ask for it.
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