Proverbs 2: 2, 10 “So that you incline your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding. When wisdom enters your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul.”
Dear God,
How delightful it is to seek Your wisdom and discernment each morning. In Your word, the Bible, Your reveal yourself specifically, and when I put aside my own interests and prejudice, I find you without being wholly or partially obscured by my own bias. For You send Your Holy Spirit, who leads me gently, day by day in knowing You, and how I should live my life as Your child. When I meditate and pray out of Your word and teaching, I am corrected and led along a pathway to heaven. This time has become most precious to me and more important than anything else. For this and every other blessing and mercy, I praise Your name.
King Solomon, the author of Proverbs, was filled with wisdom, by You in answer to his prayer upon his ordination, as king of Judah. In Proverbs after a large portion of his life, lived in apostasy and disobedience has passed, he shares his wisdom about what not to do, and instead to seek wisdom (Yourself) and understanding with diligence; to ‘cry out for discernment’ to ‘lift up your voice for understanding’; to seek as if for silver or hidden treasure’ (Proverbs 2: 1 – 4). In V5, he promises that in the process of seeking true wisdom, we will learn what it means to appreciate and reverence the Lord, and will find the wisdom which comes from God. Solomon found as we will, V6, “For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.”
Thank You that even my early morning dull mind (at times) can receive some knowledge and understanding of You in all ways needful; with more to come as I continue in Your way. V8 “He guards the paths of justice, and preserves the way of His saints.”
I am so glad that I can go upon Your path all through this day; with the knowledge that You love to hear my prayers of petition and praise and then fill my need combined with blessing and peace that is beyond all human understanding.
Amen