MINING FOR WISDOM

Today's reading: Job 27-28

"People know how to tear apart flinty rocks and overturn the roots of mountains. They cut tunnels in the rocks and uncover precious stones. They dam up the trickling streams and bring light to hidden treasures. But do people know where to find wisdom? Where can they find understanding?...And this is what he says to all humanity: The fear of the Lord is true wisdom; to forsake evil is real understanding." Job 28:9-12, 28 NLT

I'm thinking this morning about the extent we all go to for convenience, for wealth, for comfort, for status, for love.

The lengths we'll go to find an easier route, true love, a better way.

The stack of bills we will rack up attempting to impress people we don't even really care for, to live in homes that are not 'homey' or wearing clothes that are not comfortable or functional.

The depths to which we will dig to find out something--anything--nothing.

The means by which we will try to gather as many material possessions as we can possibly gather--knowing when we die, nothing goes with us.

Do we seek out a fear and understanding of God with such intensity?

Do we strive to live for Him with the same level of determination we will hunt for a bargain?

Do we attempt to tell others about His saving grace with the same excitement we might have at a hockey game we have paid to get to attend?

We do a lot of hard things on a day to day basis, but are any of them of eternal value? Do any of them draw us closer to the Lord?