Pr. 2:10-11: “When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you.”
How do we get wisdom to enter our heart? How does knowledge become pleasant our souls? We read and meditate on the Word of God. We spend time with our Lord in prayer. We allow the sweet Holy Spirit to guide us and speak the deep things of God to us throughout our day. If we simply spend time with God, His word will bore into our minds, hearts, and souls and discretion, wisdom, understanding, and knowledge will naturally come.
What I have found is that the more I have of God, the more I want. The more I stay in His presence, the more I long for His presence in my life. The more I allow His will to guide my decisions, the more I want His advice. This is how knowledge becomes pleasant to our souls.
I remember reading how David longed for God, and for God’s presence. David danced before the Lord with all of his might. His trust was only in the Lord and He called out to the Lord when He needed anything. He praised the Lord with harp, song, and word. He meditated on the scriptures and made them a lamp unto his feet and a light unto his path. The Lord was the first thing on his mind when he awoke. The Psalms are full of David’s heart being poured out before the Lord. This is what happens when we truly get into His presence on a regular basis. David sought the Lord, and the Lord showed Himself to David and protected Him.
David made mistakes, but God still called him a man after His own heart, because David truly loved and longed for God. He wasn’t a perfect person, but His Savior was perfect beyond measure and David counted on the Lord to guide and keep Him. David understood that he had no strength but God.
Ps. 93:4 says, “The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, than the mighty waves of the sea.” I’m not sure who wrote this Psalm, but I know that David knew this to be true. Without the Lord, David was just a boy facing a giant that could not be defeated. David, however, understood that the battle was the Lord’s and that he was simply the instrument the Lord was using to defeat the giant and bring glory to God.
When this kind of wisdom enters our heart, truly we will live in safety. We understand that life is not about us, our weaknesses, or our strengths. Knowledge of the Holy One will give us the pleasant truth that God is truly in control. God will fight our giants.
We only get this knowledge in His presence. David spent time with God, even time on his face worshiping the Lord who is mightier than the waves of the sea. His life is a good example for us of how we should live our lives. He’s not the only one allowed to live this way. Let’s take a few notes from David today and allow the Lord to opportunity to preserve and keep us.
“Therefore I will play music before the Lord. And I will be even more undignified than this, and will be humble in my own sight.” -David, 2 Sam. 6:21-22
jamie
considering the word 