I prayed for wisdom to win a Sunday school prize, then prayed a whole week that the coin would land my way
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.
When I was in Sunday school the story of how King Solomon chose wisdom intrigued me. The way the king asked and got wisdom, that helped him to tackle the dispute between two women over a baby, grasped my imagination.
This motivated me, so I started praying for wisdom, for the singular purpose of getting first rank in my Sunday School Examination. My prayers were answered, and I got the highest marks.
I got to know later on that there were two who got the highest marks. A toss up was decided upon the following Sunday. I was ecstatic.
I had a full one week to pray for the coin to fall in my favor. When it actually did, my joy knew no bounds. I had done it.
I had a full one week to pray for the coin to fall in my favor. When it actually did, my joy knew no bounds.
Sanjay
I prayed for wisdom and I got it. I prayed for luck and I got it, or it seemed to me at that tender age. The Bible says in Proverbs 22:15:
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, only the rod of discipline drives it far away from him.
It was only much later on in life, that I learnt the rigors of discipline and how to overcome the feeling of achieving things in a short run.
Where Solomon got it from
Did you ever wonder how Solomon chose wisdom when God made a blanket offer to him in a dream? He reveals it to us in the wonderful passage hidden in Proverbs 4:3-6, "When I was a child..."
So it was his father David who groomed him to seek wisdom and to cultivate it. Let us observe the benefits of seeking wisdom in the passage below.
Then God said to him: "Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked long life... And I have also given you what you have not asked: both riches and honor, so that there shall not be anyone like you among the kings all your days. So if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days."
One greater than Solomon echoed the same in the following verses in Matthew 6:33.
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
What you shun, not only what you seek
Is seeking wisdom the same as seeking the kingdom of God? Well it depends on what you understand by wisdom. The Bible speaks about two kinds of wisdom in James 3:13 and 17.
So how do we begin to seek wisdom? Job says in Job 28:28, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." Fear of the Lord is wisdom. To shun evil is understanding. No one shunned evil as he did in his time. It is written of him in Job 1:1, "There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil."
So it's not only about what you seek but also about what you shun. Proverbs 8:13. How do you shun evil? How can one sense evil garbed in the goodies of life? There is certainly only one way by which you can overcome this sin problem. Proverbs 8:13 reveals. "To fear the Lord is to hate evil."
Therefore, if you are in a state of trouble or confusion, in a situation from where you want to wriggle free, then here is the answer. Seek His Kingdom first and you will end up with heavenly wisdom to tackle the issues surrounding you.
As you involve yourself more and more in kingdom related objectives that God has prepared for you, that you find you are suited to, you automatically open the doors of heavenly wisdom to knock off the troubles plaguing you, and you begin to exercise new freedom.
The simple believes every word, but the prudent considers well his steps.