Devotions: Gaining Wisdom

Listen to counsel and accept discipline,
That you may be wise the rest of your days.

Proverbs 19:20 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

 

The New Living Translation of this verse says to “get all the advice and instruction you can.” This is active. We should not be passive about gaining wisdom. How do we do that? We seek advice from godly people, we willingly listen to counsel and wisdom, we obey what is said, we learn from being disciplined. Anyone with children can tell when a child “accepts discipline” and when they don’t, and the result follows suit. If they accept it, they won’t make the same mistake again, but if they don’t, it is sure to be repeated, sometimes 5 minutes later. That is what the Bible calls foolish, it can also be called rebellious. The Bible also says that the way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but the wise listen to counsel. Many people want to be wise, but few are humble enough to get there, or willing to put out enough effort to seek it. Few are willing to listen and obey, preferring to go their own way, choosing rebellion over wisdom. If you want to be wise, you first need to humble, you need to listen, you need to accept discipline. Are you willing to do that?

 

 

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