Proverbs: A Strong Man Is WiseSample

Search, Find, and Double Down

Solomon makes it clear: if you want to grow in wisdom, you have to want it. Because wisdom does not just suddenly show up. In fact, wisdom isn’t something that happens to you at all.

As Solomon says in Proverbs 2, you have to search for wisdom with everything you are: your ears, heart, voice, and sight. In other words, you must give your whole self to seeking it.

This means that your journey to wisdom must consume you more than your search for riches and reward. It needs to consume you more than your search for recreation, relationships, and reputation. You will have to set other things aside to find it. But if you do, you will find something that will blow your mind. You will find God. And when you find God, you’ll find everything, including wisdom.

The best way to begin to find wisdom is to put yourself around men who are wiser than you. Men who pursue wisdom. Men who passionately search for it in their leadership, marriage, family, and career.

You can accelerate this process by identifying the unwise people you are spending too much time with and doubling down on the wise people you need to spend more time with. Do it. It’s one step on the way to a more passionate search for the wisdom you want and need.

ASK THIS: Who is someone you need to stop spending time with? Who is someone you need to start spending time with?

DO THIS: Set up a time to meet with a man who is wiser than you.

PRAY THIS: God, may my relationships and choices become wiser.