2nd July- How to get Wisdom

Be Unreasonably Committed
By Kenneth Copeland

If you really want to get the wisdom of God, you'll have to do more than casually read the Scriptures a few minutes a day. You'll have to feed on them night and day. You'll have to get rid of the rubbish you've been feeding into your consciousness by reprogramming your mind with the Word of God.

"Oh, Brother Copeland," you may say, "that's unreasonable!"

Yes it is. But consider this: A music major in college practices for hours every day. Olympic skaters spend six to eight hours a day training for their routines. They do it because they're unreasonably committed to their goals.

The same is true for you. If you're going to achieve the kind of spiritual excellence you're hungry for, you're going to have to be unreasonably committed to the Word of God.

That may well mean that you'll have to carry a tape player around with you everywhere you go. It may mean that you'll have your razor in one hand and your tape player in the other or a tape player in one hand and a fork in the other.

Do whatever it takes to totally saturate yourself with the Word of God. I would speak to you no differently if I were your commanding officer about to send you into combat against the best trained elite troops of a savage enemy.

You are God's frontline assault force. You have an enemy who is doing his dead level best to destroy you. In this crucial, all-out, no-holds-barred offensive, Satan will dispatch hell's choicest personnel to bring you down. If you're going to make it through in victory, you're going to have to put yourself in training.

• Point to Ponder: If you really want to get the wisdom of God, you'll have to do more than casually read the Scriptures a few minutes a day. You'll have to feed on them night and day.

• Scripture Reading: Proverbs 1:7-33

• Verse: Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. (Proverbs 4:7-9)

• What you can do about it: Be unreasonably committed. Get wisdom. Meditate on God's word night and day.

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Scripture Reading (Proverbs 1:7-33):

1:7
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
1:8
Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
1:9
They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.
1:10
My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in to them.
1:11
If they say, "Come along with us; let's lie in wait for someone's blood, let's waylay some harmless soul;
1:12
let's swallow them alive, like the grave, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
1:13
we will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our houses with plunder;
1:14
throw in your lot with us, and we will share a common purse"--
1:15
my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths;
1:16
for their feet rush into sin, they are swift to shed blood.
1:17
How useless to spread a net in full view of all the birds!
1:18
These men lie in wait for their own blood; they waylay only themselves!
1:19
Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it.
1:20
Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares;
1:21
at the head of the noisy streets she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech:
1:22
"How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
1:23
If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts known to you.
1:24
But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand,
1:25
since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke,
1:26
I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you--
1:27
when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.
1:28
"Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me.
1:29
Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the Lord,
1:30
since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke,
1:31
they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.
1:32
For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them;
1:33
but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm."
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