“My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding— indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.”

Proverbs 2:1-6

This entire chapter of Proverbs 2 is a gold mine that invites you to grab a pick and come digging. Wisdom, it says, is to be searched for like silver or gold, discernment is to be dug for like precious stones.

Why would the Bible make such a big deal about something that in a way is already ours? Why would it send us off searching for God and his wisdom when we’ve already found God? Hasn’t He already made Himself known to us through Jesus Christ? Hasn’t God already given us all things that pertain to life and godliness (“His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.”

2 Peter 1:3)? He has put wonderful deposits, great resources within our reach. The Holy Spirit dwelling within us shows that God has placed a hidden treasure in us.

Face it: you and I have within our grasp, even inside us, a gold mine. But it is a gold mine of POSSIBILITIES! God asks us to roll up our sleeves and dig for all those riches he’s given us. We have to prospect for the gold of his wisdom, the precious gems of understanding and discernment.

But the rewards are heavenly deposits that are greater than we can ever imagine, and more than worth all our efforts to find them!

~ Joni Eareckson Tada