Do you want $10,000,000? What if I told you that you could have financial freedom today and live comfortably the rest of your life. Would that be something you would desire?Proverbs 8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
I read this verse this morning, and it really stuck out to me - Mainly because of the word all. Solomon is telling his son that out of all the things he could desire, none of them could be compared to wisdom.
How inclusive do you think that "all" is? I mean...wisdom isn't better than salvation obviously.
Based on the context, my thought is that the "all" that Solomon is refering to, is all of the riches - all of the physical things that his son could desire. In verse 10 Solomon's talking about gold and silver. In verse 11 he prefaces it with "wisdom is better than rubies".
Solomon knew that his son grew up in a pampered environment. He had anything he could ever want in the physical sense. Solomon had riches the world had never seen, and yet he knew that the wisdom God had given him was worth far more than this.
Does this apply to us today? Aren't we the richest people the world has ever seen? Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day. source 1 Yes, we are definitely rich. While we may not all be "sons of Solomon", we are still easily distracted from acquiring Godly wisdom. We still get easily wrapped up in our stuff.
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I find it instructive that both Solomon and his son had many troubles with his fortune. Solomon had all the wisdom any man has ever had, but could not seem to apply that wisdom to his everyday life and suffered because of it. He relied too much on his wisdom and material possessions, and not on God. Even if we become the richest and wisest person in the world, it is all for naught without God and real meaning in our lives. Things do not create meaning, we find meaning through following our Creator.
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