Wisdom can seem illusive, hard to find, or even challenging to understand why we, according to James 1 ask for it, but never feel like we recieve it. Wisdom is not some position we obtain, but a person we embody. Wisdom is not earned like wages, but rather inherited like wealth. Who would not want wisdom? No one, so why do so few people have it?

The answer lies in Proverbs 8 where it says, “My children, listen to me,
for all who follow my ways are joyful. Listen to my instruction and be wise. Don’t ignore it. Joyful are those who listen to me, watching for me daily at my gates, waiting for me outside my home! For whoever finds me finds life and receives favor from the LORD. But those who miss me injure themselves. All who hate me love death.”

Everyone wants to fruit of wisdom, joy, favor, wealth, but who is willing to listen, obey, and wait for wisdom? How many people actually hate wisdom and don’t realize it, because they think they know what it means to hate someone? Many people, I would surmise, for the word hate there means to be unwilling, resistant, disobedient to wisdom’s call.

When it says we love death when we hate wisdom it is saying, we choose death over life when we resist the voice of God. It is not literal death, it is what Proverbs 8 says, we injure ourselves when we disobey the voice of God. This is powerful, for we cannot blame anyone else for our unwillingness to obey the voice of God.

Wisdom is calling out, daily, and today if you hear her voice, do not harden your heart and be unwilling to do as she says. When wisdom calls it is to your advantage to do as she says, for she is leading you on the path paved with gold, on the road called favor, and to the place called rest. Wisdom is a treasure so many forfeit because they are unwilling to do what she tells them to do. May this not be me, may this not be you. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org