I Understand

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
I UNDERSTAND
Prov 2:9-11
9 Then you will understand what is right and just and fair — every good path. 10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. 11 Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
NIV
If I turn, apply, cry and search and God gives me the wisdom, knowledge and understanding including the victory and his shield and guards my path, then I will understand what is right and just and fair, every good path. It is a partnership in a sense for I do not think God will give all of that unless I do my part, not that he is unwilling to give to me, or anyone for that matter, but unless I search for him and all he has, he will not force it on me against my will. So having done my part, wisdom has entered my heart. A bold statement to say, yet I have not said it, God has. So I will have wisdom concerning him, I am confident of, but surely not wisdom regarding the world. I am assured of God and his ways, I have seen him in action all too often in my life, directing my path, healing my body, providing my needs and so much more. The knowledge that he loves and cares for me surely pleasures my soul. I think so many people attempt to find pleasure in so many things of the world or actually pleasure in themselves, being filled with so much of themselves they cannot even think about seeking God. Although they might believe it is pleasure, it has escaped them. True pleasure comes from God. The pleasure of knowing him and his ways, the pleasure of seeing him working for me, in me and through me far exceeds any pleasure of this world. Yet I must say, that knowing him does allow me to enjoy so much of what he created for me in and on the earth. I think that is a distinction, the things of the world and all that is on the earth. He brings so much pleasure to my being as I enjoy his creation, seeing the wonders of his design, observing his creativity and the beauty of it all. This may well be a part of the way he brings pleasure to my soul. But also in the knowledge that I will not end here, but someday I will enter into the physical presence of my Lord, in another place he has prepared for me. So this discretion, this having a plan to follow after God, to look to him for all I am, all I have, and all I do and having the hope in him for life eternal along with the understanding God gives will protect and guard me against any attempt of the evil one to lure me into his trap. I understand!