For our final day this week, we jump forward to Proverbs chapter 8. Our prayer and hope is that you will continue on in your reading of Proverbs. With 31 chapters, it makes for great daily reading in a month. Learning to consistently ask God for wisdom and discernment will revolutionize your life over years and literally change your future as He answers you.

Listen as Wisdom calls out! Hear as understanding raises her voice! On the hilltop along the road, she takes her stand at the crossroads. By the gates at the entrance to the town, on the road leading in, she cries aloud, “I call to you, to all of you! I raise my voice to all people. … Listen to me! For I have important things to tell you. Everything I say is right, for I speak the truth and detest every kind of deception. My advice is wholesome. There is nothing devious or crooked in it. My words are plain to anyone with understanding, clear to those with knowledge. Choose my instruction rather than silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold. For wisdom is far more valuable than rubies. Nothing you desire can compare with it. “I, Wisdom, live together with good judgment. I know where to discover knowledge and discernment. … “I love all who love me. Those who search will surely find me. I have riches and honor, as well as enduring wealth and justice. My gifts are better than gold, even the purest gold, my wages better than sterling silver! I walk in righteousness, in paths of justice. Those who love me inherit wealth. I will fill their treasuries. (Proverbs 8:1-4, 6-12, 17-21 NLT)

What is the one overarching principle you have gained and understood this week regarding your life and specifically finances as you have listened to Solomon’s Proverbs and God’s Word? I want to encourage you to take a few minutes and write down any profound truths you have received this week. Retention and application are necessary for gaining wisdom.

God does not promise any of us that we will become rich in wealth, but He does promise us His riches. And those are never temporary, but eternal.

Listen again as we close with verses 17-21:

Those who search will surely find me. I have riches and honor, as well as enduring wealth and justice. My gifts are better than gold, even the purest gold, my wages better than sterling silver! I walk in righteousness, in paths of justice. Those who love me inherit wealth. I will fill their treasuries.

Pray with me: “Heavenly Father, I want to change my worldview to Yours. I want to see life, money, lifestyle, and priorities as You want me to. With You in my life every day, I know I will be exactly where I need to be with all that I need. As above, so below.”