Benefits of Wisdom

Benefits of Wisdom

Proverbs 2:10-20 (KJV) ¹⁰ When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; ¹¹ Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: ¹² To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; ¹³ Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; ¹⁴ Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; ¹⁵ Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: ¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; ¹⁷ Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. ¹⁸ For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. ¹⁹ None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. ²⁰ That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

In Proverbs 2:10-22   God gives us the benefits of wisdom.  Wisdom is defined as a divine gift from God giving skill to living life according to His Word.

1.  It makes knowledge pleasant to your soul. (10)

Wisdom will have the benefit of loving to learn.  Specifically, loving to learn about God and living life according to His will and way.

2.  It enables you to judge between right and wrong. (11)

Discretion (discerning between right and wrong) shall preserve (guard, protect) thee.

3.  It guards and protects you from evil. (11)

The word preserve means to guard and protect. Literally, it means a hedge of protection. (Job 1:10)

It is the discerning that wisdom gives that guards and protects.  When one is able to make decisions that are right, one is protected against that which is wrong.

 4.  It enables you to learn and know what is right and what is wrong. (11)

Understanding = knowing what is right and wrong.  Webster's 1828 says: The faculty of the human mind by which it apprehends the real state of things presented to it, or by which it receives or comprehends the ideas which others express and intend to communicate. The understanding is called also the intellectual faculty. It is the faculty by means of which we obtain a great part of our knowledge. Luke 24. Eph. 1.

5.  It prevents you from falling (11)

Keep = To preserve from falling or from danger; to protect; to guard or sustain.

 6.  It rescues you from the influence and lifestyle of evil men. (12-15)

Deliver = to rescue, to recover, to snatch away.  Wisdom, knowledge, discretion and understanding will rescue us from the thinking, the influence, and the lifestyle of the man whose heart is set on doing wrong.  To disable negative peer pressure, enable God's Word!

7.  It saves you from the immoral and promiscuous woman. (16-19)

Wisdom, knowledge, discretion, and understanding will prevent you from relationships with immoral and promiscuous woman.  It should be well noted the danger and results of a relationship with this type of woman.

8.  It enables you to follow the steps of good men. (20)

9.  It enables you to stay on the path of righteousness. (20)