Posted on 04/03/2020 5:56:19 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her” (Proverbs 3:17-18 KJV).
“Her ways are ways of pleasantness,” she produces pleasant things.
“She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her,” she’ll show you how to get saved. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,” when you really begin to seek God’s wisdom, God will show you how to be saved, if you are lost; and how to grow, if you are saved.
“The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew” (Proverbs 3:19-20 KJV).
There is the trio; knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. That was the first thing to be seen in Proverbs chapter 1, “The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding” (vss 1:1-2). They are not just different words for the same things. Knowledge is the accumulation of facts. Wisdom is what you do with it, and understanding is how you take the facts and what you do with them in relation to God.
There are a lot of men that use wisdom for personal profit because of what they know, and there are a lot of people in this world that know an awful lot but don’t get anywhere. They don’t use it to their own benefit or anybody else’s benefit. But when a person has understanding, they take what they know, and they apply in a way that’s in a right relationship with God. When they go to work, they are working to supply the needs of their family, and supply the needs of their church, and to try to reach lost people. They are not only working for personal profit, but their working has some relationship to God and His purposes.
“She is a tree of life,” There is a tree of life. You found it. Success and happiness are its fruit, and you can have it forever. Men search vainly for fulfillment and prosperity, but both are offered to you today. Are you really living? These words are to you from God and the wisest king ever.
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