HOW TO GAIN PROFITABLE WISDOM - PART 7

MONDAY 12 MAY 2025

Gaining profitable wisdom from God's words and commands entails the ability to consider the contexts of place, state of mind, concentrated focus, and the level of Spirit-led influence that are relevant in any given time or session of your Bible study. More below!

Reference: Proverbs 2:1-6 Common English Bible (CEB)

"My son, accept my words and store up my commands."

Why are you implored to accept God's words and commands? The natural and desired state of mankind's operation is primarily by sensory observation - in response to his instinctual cravings. But a born again Christian is designed for a higher state of operation, which can only be actualised by wholehearted indulgence with the Word. If the natural man cannot accept the things of God, and even the spiritually born needs to be instructed to do so, then there is something serious about the instruction: "accept my words and commands." And here are two reasons why I said this: Firstly, God gives out His words and commands free, but you cannot benefit from what you don't accept.

Secondly, the unspiritual self, just as it is by nature, cannot meaningfully receive the words and commands of God's Spirit, because there's no thriving capacity for it to do so. This is the reason God's words and commands seem like so much silliness to the carnally-inspired. Therefore, accepting the Word can only be done by engaging God's Spirit and our spirits in constant communion of the embedded truth. So by being spiritually minded and alive, we can have access to everything God's Word represents, and we can also go deeper by means of demanding to behold wondrous things from the Word.

Lord, open my eyes to spiritual truth, so that I may behold wondrous things out of your law (Psalm 119:18). What are wondrous things? They are hidden treasures and realities that inspire an aura of wonder or delight. One person can study a particular verse, and yet, may not behold a wondrous reality, but rather all they will see is the most basic, obvious, or literal interpretation of the versified statement, because their faith and inward being have not been stretched by an earnest desire to explore or examine deeper or hidden meanings embedded in the verse.

Romans 11:33 reads, "Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!" (NKJV). Did you know that the wisdom and knowledge of any specific Scripture could be vastly rich in nature and revelation? This means that a good and thoroughgoing sound judgment in the study of a Scripture is highly possible, but it often requires a Spirit-guided access to its in-depth analysis, as the tunnel of the versified statement is lit up, enabling us to travel far into the depths of the Scriptural truth.

When you study a particular Scripture at surface level, the Spirit of truth can provide guidance on the appropriate understanding under such specific "conditioning" of your mind. But it does not suggest that the only goodness or wonder you can discern from that Scripture at that moment is all there is. The next time you study the same Scripture, with an attitude of demanding a wondrous revelation, the Spirit of truth has the directive capacity to guide you into a higher dimension of the same truth, such that you'll arrive at a wondrous destination of expository comprehension you've never imagined. Got it? Stay tuned for part 8. Shalom!

Scripture Reading  - 1 Corinthians 2:10-11; Romans 12:2; Philippians 1:9-10; ; James 1:5.

Guided Prayer:

Heavenly Father, I acknowledge that my vested acceptance of divine wisdom and knowledge is rooted in my strong belief in the realities they reveal. Thank you for the ability at work in me to search and study the scriptures and thereby, obtain gracious wonders, which is done with utmost discernment and prudential expression of the virtue of honesty, in Jesus' Name, Amen.