Make insight your priority

So what is your priority in life?

Health and happiness? Work? Success? Money? Family? Friends? Love?

What do you spend most of your time thinking about? What do you spend most of your money on?

Chapter 2 of Proverbs (in The Message) encourages each one of us to make insight our priority. Because insight and wisdom are far greater than knowledge. You can read every book about parenting and yet still come face to face with a situation you don’t know how to handle. You can ask all your friends for advice, but still be faced with a dilemma. You may not have the time to google whatever is right before you that needs dealing with urgently.

Knowledge is one thing. Insight is beyond that. It’s an active intuition that helps you assess and understand what is going on in any situation. Knowledge can take you so far, but wisdom alone can help you in the unknown.

Tune your ears to the world of Wisdom;
set your heart on a life of Understanding.

Wisdom takes practice. There’s a world of wisdom deep inside every human. As we grow, we lose the ability to listen to it and get distracted by all that the outside world is telling us. We need to practice identifying it and recognising its voice.

This insight needs to be our priority. We need to search for it. We need to really want it. It is a free gift from God for those who sincerely desire it.

He’s a rich mine of Common Sense for those who live well.

It’s about living honestly. True to ourselves. True to the God who made us. Being committed, faithful, loyal.

A perfect combination of wisdom, knowledge, good sense and insight with help us find our way. Help us make the right decisions and choices.

They’ll keep you from making wrong turns,
or following the bad directions
Of those who are lost themselves.

There’s plenty of people out there trying to seduce us and tempt us and lead us off the right path for us. They have an agenda, a vested interest in making us live their way, think their way. It takes a determined person to stop and think things through before following the crowd or being sucked into the advertising trap or media mindset. A wise person.

So—join the company of good men and women,
keep your feet on the tried-and-true paths.
It’s the men who walk straight who will settle this land,
the women with integrity who will last here.

This is our journey. These are our travelling companions. It’s an adventure, trust me. It will not be boring or restrictive. Living in the way we were created to live is what will truly set us free. You’ve heard me say it before. I wholeheartedly believe it. Insight matters. Integrity matters. These are what run deep. These are what will last.