You Only Gain Knowledge if You’re Willing to Listen
Life happens. Multiple times in your life you’ll be offered opportunities that you’ll either take or give up. Big ones don’t happen often (hopefully!), but along with each decision comes the opportunity to see how that decision plays out in the time to come.
Sure, each person’s life experience and circumstances are unique, just as we all are unique, but one of the things that are part and parcel of life on earth is the ability to pass on what one has learned to the next generation.
In the first chapter of the book of Proverbs, we see Solomon attempting to do just that. Solomon gained wisdom and knowledge as a blessing from the Lord, but he also followed paths we find in Ecclesiastes, and we know that he fell from following the Lord because of his many wives and concubines.
So it doesn’t surprise us to find that, at the beginning of this book of wisdom that he wants to share he is going to start by stressing just how important it is to search for wisdom and knowledge, and why it’s important to study well.
One can almost hear a young son asking his dad why he has to read this book again in the background. Solomon’s response? “Only fools don’t want wisdom and instruction, and it all starts with fearing the Lord.” Elsewhere in Scripture, we’d read that we should not fear someone that can kill us, but only the One that can kill us AND send us to Hell.
So how about you? Do you fear the Lord? Are you willing to set aside the latest news, the constant feed you get from social media, and the cares of the day to listen and gain knowledge?
