Wisdom’s benefits seem to be quite far reaching. With promises of a long life, a good name, riches, honor, prosperity, straight paths and sweet sleep…the search for and the application of wisdom to my life should be a no-brainer. After all, I’ve been frustrated by poverty lately and certainly have not experienced sweet sleep in quite some time. In fact, my sleep is occasionally and sometime regularly disturbed by worry, regret and mostly frustration in general. I LONG…I L-O-N-G, mean I deeply desire and l-o-n-g for the day that sweet sleep arrives to accompany all the other benefits of discernment.
Oh Lord, give me "wisdom" in all arreas of my life, relationships, finances, thoughts, actions, in all areas Lord. Leave no area unaffected.

Proverbs 3:1 “My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart, for they will prolong your life many years and bring you prosperity.”

"30 Days of Wisdom"

Today begins for me a new endeavor Im calling “30 Days of Wisdom”. This isn’t a result of much seeking or an extended research time, but one of immediate frustration. For a while words have flown thru my head such as: confusion, frustration, empty, poor, broken, directionless etc. But today unexpectedly, I added, deeply hungry and desperate…for truth, direction, vision engagement, and life mission.

“My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding, and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find knowledge of God.

For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. He holds victory in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless, for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of the faithful ones.

Then you will understand what is right and just and fair-every good path. For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you. Wisdom will save you from the ways of the wicked men, from wise men whose words are perverse, who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways, who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perseverance of evil, whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.

It will save you also from the adulterous, from the wayward wife with her seductive words, who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God. For her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead. None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.

Thus you will walk in the ways of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous. For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it; but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithful will be torn from it.” Proverbs 2

I think this will be a Nehemiah type journey, which interestingly was what I preached from in a church in Lexington, VA this past weekend, AND the name of our wireless. Not sure what that all means, but it's probably not coincidence. 

My initial plan here is to study word for word and pray thru the corresponding chapter/day each day. Already today was eerily appropriate and insightful to a few questions about life. Already today we understand that WISDOM must be accompanied with applied UNDERSTANDING which in turn leads to the fear of the Lord and finding the knowledge of God, which I desperately need here. 

And so it begins...