Wisdom for Dummies (Prov 2)

Proverbs 2
Make Insight Your Priority
1-5 Good friend, take to heart what I'm telling you; collect my counsels and guard them with your life.
Tune your ears to the world of Wisdom;
set your heart on a life of Understanding.
That's right—if you make Insight your priority,
and won't take no for an answer,
Searching for it like a prospector panning for gold,
like an adventurer on a treasure hunt,
Believe me, before you know it Fear-of-God will be yours;
you'll have come upon the Knowledge of God. The Message

Proverbs 2:1-5 gives us some pointers as to how to understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

We need to be attentive and to listen to what God tells us to do. Our heart needs to be part of the deal too. We need to long, to yearn, to cry out and make our voice audibly heard. There is also a passionate pursuit, a seeking and searching involved. Then we will better understand and have a more tangible grasp of what the fear of the Lord really is all about.