Proverbs 2  Verses 1-5  "IF".."THEN"   Here is the crux of the matter.. If we receive..treasure..make our ears attentive..incline our hearts towards.. cry out for.. lift our voices for .. and seek wisdom and understanding and discernment... Then we "will discern the fear of the Lord and discover the knowledge of God."  As chapter 1 revealed... wisdom is available.. but we must act.. by listening, receiving, and choosing to live accordingly... 

"For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding. He stores up wisdom for the upright;"    God is the source and the provider.. there is no other!  Not only that, but He shields us, guards our paths, and preserves our way.  It is "abiding"... as Jesus said in the upper room... "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you."  

As we abide in Jesus.. He speaks His wisdom and understanding to us.. so that we can walk according to His will.  "Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity and every good course, for wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; discretion will guard you, understanding will watch over you, to deliver you from the way of evil.. "  (v9-12a)

What a promise!  We pray "deliver us from evil"..  and according to verses 12-19 that includes those who "speak perverse things;"  those who "leave the paths of uprightness"; those who "walk in darkness".. those who "delight in doing evil".. those who "rejoice in the perversity of evil"; those who are "crooked.. devious" and immoral.  "So you will walk in the way of good men, and keep to the paths of the righteous." (v20)

The promise is sure.. the righteous will live.. the wicked will perish.  The only way to righteousness is through Jesus Christ the Lord. We need to make that choice.. choose life.. choose wisdom.. choose righteousness.. seek Jesus, make Him our treasure, make our ears attentive to His voice, cry out to Him, incline our hearts towards Him.. and seek Him and His Kingdom.. First!

Father God, blessed is Your holy Name. We seek to abide in Jesus, to gain the riches of wisdom and understanding that only He can give.. so that we can walk in righteousness.. in justice. in goodness.. and peace.. and most of all in Your Love. Fill us Holy Spirit.. continually, we pray., that we might abide in Him!  In the Name of Jesus Christ the Lord. Amen