Walking in truth

Good morning! It looks like another beautiful California day. I do enjoy the weather here and am thankful for a beautiful place to live. Now to our chapter in Proverbs. Chapter 4 of Proverbs starts off with Solomon talking about his father and some of the things he learned from him. His father encouarged him at a very young age to "Lay hold of my words with all your heart; keep my commands and you will live. Get wisdom, get understanding, do not forget my words or swerve from them. Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you, love her and she will watch over you. Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding." Vs.4-7 What quality instrucions from a father to a son! Since we are children of God, we can get our wisdom and our understanding from Him through reading the Word of God. But it takes time to do it and when we learn, we must apply what we learn to our lives. I believe that is the difference between wisdom and understanding. Wisdom is being wise about a certain subject, and understanding is applying what we know to our lives. Reading the Word is wise and applying it shows we understand what we have read. As mother's, aunts, grandma's, sisters are we helping the children in our lives to be wise? Are we teaching them the Bible all it's wonderful stories and truths? One speaker I heard made a good point that the Bible does not start with: "once upon a time.." but rather the Bible is the truth of God. It is not to be confused with Grimm's fairy tales but taught as truth so that our sons and daughters can lay hold of the words with all their heart, so they will live and be protected from what is wrong. As we teach truth to our children, they will be able to understand and apply it to their lives. "Except you become as a little child, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven." Children are trusting and Solomon was told by his father: "Above all else guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life." Vs. 23. What we know as truth, let us guard it, Solomon was told to let his eyes look straight ahead, to fix his gaze directly before him. Let us do the same thing, to know the truth and walk in it, because the truth of the Word of God will set us free.