"IF YOU RECEIVE MY WORDS!"

Proverbs 2:1-5                       (ESV)
"1 MY son, "IF YOU RECEIVE MY WORDS" and treasure up MY commandments with you,
2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
3 yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
4 if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,
5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of GOD."



King Solomon is known as the wisest man to have ever lived (1 Kings 4:30-31).  But wisdom like he possessed comes only from GOD ALMIGHTY, as indicated in Proverbs 2:6a where scripture says "For the LORD gives wisdom;".  Institutions of so-called "higher learning" are rampant in our society, yet we don't teach our children the value of "IF YOU RECEIVE MY WORDS"!

Remembering my own faults is something that my nature try's to avoid most of the time, as being reminded of your failures is never pleasant.  Scripture says, though, in Isaiah 55:8-9 that our thoughts are far inferior to GOD's thoughts and ways.  We can only rely on GOD to lead and direct us in the path we should go and learn from our mistakes.

When my oldest son was in high school, I went to a teacher conference while he was practicing soccer for the high school.  He was always the intelligent one, who had an occasional absent mindedness that I was determined to help him overcome.  When the teacher told me that he had a deficient grade due to not turning in some homework, I went to the soccer field and pulled him off the field and sent him home to get his homework completed.  Later that evening, his mother found his COMPLETED HOMEWORK in his backpack GRADED by the teacher!  The teacher had erred in her record keeping, just as I had done by trusting that she was correct in her report.  By placing my trust in a flawed report, I had been proven to be incorrect!

There are times when the enemy can get us so busy with hearing what he wants us to hear (maybe a flawed report!) that we can't hear from GOD!  When we don't listen to TRUTH, we wind up hearing and LISTENING TO ERROR!  King Solomon was the wisest (1 Kings 4:30) man alive and he wrote "IF YOU RECEIVE MY WORDS", then you will understand the fear of the LORD!  We can know HIS WORDS, but unless we RECEIVE HIS WORDS we cannot accomplish what HE has planned for our lives!

FATHER IN HEAVEN, cause me to willingly receive YOUR Plan for my life as I live for YOU, and to see that "IF YOU RECEIVE MY WORDS" I will be on the path YOU desire for me.