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How Much Do You Want It?
Having gone through the college football bowl season and several weeks of the NFL playoffs, you’ve probably heard this oft over-used phrase, “They won because they just wanted it more!”
No matter how much a cliché this description may seem, the reality is that it is very true. So often, what we find in life is what we actually pursue with our heart, soul, mind, and strength. We often become what we seek and often have the courage and conviction to pursue what is hard.
Proverbs 2, our reading for today, calls us to pursue wisdom because it safeguards us from disaster and steers us to the path of God. These verses, however, call us to a strenuous pursuit of wisdom! One passage is especially striking to me:
//Inspiration: Proverbs 2:4-5
And if you look for it [wisdom] as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
//Incarnation:
There are many things I desire, but being part of a culture so obsessed with things, I have to ask myself if I look for wisdom as passionately as I look for riches and search for it as passionately as I would hidden treasure. Wisdom is so undervalued and seldom pursued these days. But my guess is that this has probably always been true since these words from Proverbs were written centuries ago. However, the real problem is not that this poor choice in priorities has always been a part of the human condition, but that it is a part of my condition! I must value, pursue, and seek wisdom more if I am to walk the way of my Father in heaven.
//Invitation:
O Father of light and grace, forgive me for being so hasty to jump conclusions and so slow in pursuing wisdom. Give me the strength to not take shortcuts to truth, but to seek Your wisdom in all things. In Jesus’ name I ask this. Amen.