When She Walks in Wisdom

Proverbs 2:1-5
1 My son, if you will receive my words
And treasure my commandments within you,
2 Make your ear attentive to wisdom,
Incline your heart to understanding;
3 For if you cry for discernment,
Lift your voice for understanding;
4 If you seek her as silver
And search for her as for hidden treasures;
5 Then you will discern the fear of the Lord
And discover the knowledge of God.

Notice that wisdom is likened to a woman, ships are named after women, cities are referred to as "she." I find this interesting that women who walk in truth are valued for their wisdom. And, the men protect the cities, the ships and the women, they are highly valued as his helpers. Not that women are objects, but that they are so valued by God and godly men that they are protected as treasures.

A woman has the ability to destroy a man or help him to be successful in all that he does. Women who will not see her husband and children as their primary ministry, will seek self expression that has the potential of destroying families.

Proverbs 31: 11-12 An excellent wife, who can find?
For her worth is far above jewels.
11 The heart of her husband trusts in her,
And he will have no lack of gain.
12 She does him good and not evil
All the days of her life.

Believing men and woman alike must pursue wisdom to be able to operate in God's principles. Without wisdom the world will influence the actions and reactions of those who are not equipped to refute what they see and hear coming from the world.

Today we see many people in the church who know these words in Proverbs but are unaffected by them because they interpret what they read in terms of the world's wisdom. We can only understand the Words of the Bible if we are willing to obey them. Knowing gets us nothing and does not impress God, even the devil knows all this. God is only blessed when we seek His Word to obey Him, to know Him and to love Him.

Proverbs 1: 6-22
6 For the Lord gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7 He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
8 Guarding the paths of justice,
And He preserves the way of His godly ones.
9 Then you will discern righteousness and justice
And equity and every good course.
10 For wisdom will enter your heart
And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11 Discretion will guard you,
Understanding will watch over you,
12 To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things;
13 From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To walk in the ways of darkness;
14 Who delight in doing evil
And rejoice in the perversity of evil;
15 Whose paths are crooked,
And who are devious in their ways;
16 To deliver you from the strange woman,
From the adulteress who flatters with her words;
17 That leaves the companion of her youth
And forgets the covenant of her God;
18 For her house sinks down to death
And her tracks lead to the dead;
19 None who go to her return again,
Nor do they reach the paths of life.
20 So you will walk in the way of good men
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 treacherous will be uprooted from it.