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Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 250 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Proverbs 8:1-5 - Wisdom Calls for a Hearing #1
Thank you for joining us for our 7 days a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast.
This is Day 250 of our trek, and today we continue to remain at camp as we
search for the nuggets of wisdom found in the book of Proverbs. Yesterday we
finished exploring Proverbs 7:21-27, which was the story of the naïve young man
who made several unwise life choices leading him toward the path of destruction.
Since each day’s trek builds on the previous one, if you miss any of our
Wisdom-Trek episodes, please go to Wisdom-Trek.com to listen to them and read
the daily journal.



We are recording our podcast from our studio at Home2 in Charlotte, North
Carolina. It has been a rainy couple of days for us with some localized
flooding. In addition to our usual client workload, we are working on the final
formatting and proofing of Volume 1 of the Wisdom-Trek Journal. The first volume
will provide us a guideline and template for the other volumes, so hopefully
creating subsequent volumes will be much quicker. Our objective is to produce a
volume for each month. So far we have completed 8 months of Wisdom-Trek.

As mentioned on previous days, Paula and I are also refining all of these daily
concepts along with worksheets for Your Life Plan Blueprint, which we covered in
January, into an easy-to-use workbook. I will let you know when these projects
are complete so that you can download them.



Today we remain at camp sitting around the campfire, far away from lights and
the noise of our everyday life, which provides an opportunity to relax and
listen to the sounds of the woods. This is especially true during the night when
an entirely new set of sounds emerge. We need to practice listening to what is
important. As we are listening, it provides us with the opportunity to consider
the words of the woman called Wisdom and Understanding in chapter 8 and 9.  The
title of this section is…
Wisdom Calls for a Hearing
This is the second of Solomon’s three great poems. Wisdom, represented as a
woman, gives a speech to all the people. We all will do well to listen to what
she has to say. Let’s begin with Proverbs 8:1-5.

1 Listen as Wisdom calls out!
    Hear as understanding raises her voice!
2 On the hilltop along the road,
    she takes her stand at the crossroads.
3 By the gates at the entrance to the town,
    on the road leading in, she cries aloud,
4 “I call to you, to all of you!
    I raise my voice to all people.
5 You, simple people, use good judgment.
    You, foolish people, show some understanding.



In verse 1, there are not two women. Wisdom is one woman, but she has two names.
Her names are Wisdom and Understanding. This is because wisdom is the same thing
as understanding. Right decisions and accurate knowledge are also an indication
of wisdom.

Wisdom ultimately comes from God, but it does not come immediately. We need to
learn to be wise. This is a slow process. Each day, we should learn new lessons.
God teaches us in different ways. Sometimes he teaches us from the Bible.
Sometimes he uses other people to teach us. Sometimes he uses life’s
experiences, nature or other methods to teach us. This concept is the entire
premise for Wisdom-Trek.

It takes many years of life experiences and God’s teaching for us to obtain
wisdom. I still pray every day for wisdom, because you never can become “all
wise” – that is reserved for God. The really neat aspect of gaining wisdom is
that God promises to provide us with wisdom. All we have to do is
ask. James 1:5-6 says, "If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will
give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. But when you ask him, be sure
that your faith is in God alone." So that is the solution. Need wisdom? Ask
God.