Posted on 07/03/2022 11:24:41 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding” (Proverbs 4:7 KJV).
“Wisdom is the principal thing,” that is the chief thing, the head thing, that’s the most powerful thing. “Wisdom is the principal thing,” it is a priority. “Therefore, get wisdom.” We need wisdom, not pleasure. America has been sold a bill of goods that they need to get pleasure, get more gusto, double your pleasure—double your fun. And that is what they are after—the Devil’s trick to destroy people.
The most important thing to get in life is wisdom.
“. . . and with all thy getting get understanding,” learn to apply knowledge to God. Job says that “to depart from evil is understanding.” Take what you learn and use it in relation to God. Solomon says, “with all getting get,” notice that expression. Do you know what people are all the time doing? They are all the time getting stuff. They are getting a house, they are getting a car, they are getting stuff, getting in trouble. With all your getting, he says, as you go through life, don’t miss the best thing in life—get wisdom.
Now, let me show you about a man that had everything a man could have, and he is the one that said this:
“I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine [he went out and got him some wine], yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men [he heard people get drunk, he wanted to see if there was any good in it], which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life [He said people get drunk all the days of their life and wanted to know if there was any good in it, so he went out and bought him a bottle—he sat down and drank it—and he took notes. He said, “Hmm, I’m losing my faculties—I don’t feel the same—he took notes, that was an analytical, empirical study].
“I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees: I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me: I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers [he didn’t have a TV or a radio, he had a live band], and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts. So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
“Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done. Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness” (Ecclesiastes 2:3-13 KJV).
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Glory to Gods word!
Exactly.
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