Wisdom yields better returns than gold......

That's right! Proverbs 3:14 says that wisdom is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. It sounds like the supreme investment. It seems to me that wisdom is so central in the book of Proverbs because wisdom brings us closer to how God manages His creation. It's probably better to think of God as a wise father rather than a smart professor. Our Lord does not really want to conduct a seminar for us or communicate to us as classroom students. He wants to father us and the sooner we dismiss the teacher-student concept of God the better it will be for all of those who want to know God.

Do you really think that we are getting the biggest bang for the buck by attending all these church services and seminars? We attend these things all the time and when they are over we go right back to our non-relational lifestyle. What does church attendance and seminar Christianity yield in our lives? Do we come away from them closer to God? Sometimes we do but it can be momentary at best. Here's the deal. The same wisdom given to the Preacher and the teacher is readily available to you. It can come through other people for sure because the Lord wants us to minister one to another and live as a family under Him but God can speak to us directly as well. We don't trust our ability to hear from God because we have become leaners. We expect others to hear from God for us. That has to stop.

The yields and benefits of having a relationship with God are far and away better than our man made substitutes. The best advice we can give others in moments of distress is to urge them to seek God immediately. He's a father lying in wait for His children to return to Him.

His wisdom yields better returns than gold.......