Answered Prayer

I have spent the last fifteen years consistently, fervently praying for wisdom. (You might read that nagging God for wisdom.) I beg God for wisdom in one area of my life or another probably at least once a day. And while I tend to be a know-it-all, God is faithfully showing me how VERY MUCH I don't know. However, the more I realize what I minuscule amount of knowledge I have, the more foolish I feel.

Here's the exciting thing, though; my closest friends consistently point out wisdom that I've shared with them! As another friend pointed out some wisdom I'd shared during our conversation this week, I marveled that God is answering my prayer! And since He is infinite, He can keep answering my request for wisdom for eternity!

My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints. Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path; for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you, delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech, who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil, men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
Proverbs 2:1-15