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Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 251 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Proverbs 8:6-16 - Wisdom Calls for a Hearing #2
Thank you for joining us for our 7 days a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast.
This is Day 251 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
explored Proverbs 8:1-5 as the woman Wisdom is calling everyone together for an
important hearing to present her case in a legal proceeding before the city
gates. We learned yesterday that the city gates were similar to our courtrooms
today, where all legal matters were presented and decided. Since each day’s trek
builds on the previous ones, 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. Within our heavy work schedule, we are carving some time out for our
Wisdom-Trek projects. We will be releasing Your Life Plan Blueprint and
Wisdom-Trek Journal Volume 1 soon. Although it is taking longer than hoped, I
want to keep mentioning it to hold us accountable to complete this phase of the
task as soon as is feasible.

Let’s move on to our trek and visualize today as we remain in camp sitting
around the campfire watching the flames and listening to the crackling of the
wood as it burns. Campfires are a great setting for telling and listening to
stories. For our story today, let’s transport ourselves back to ancient
Jerusalem during the reign of King Solomon. We are just outside of the gates of
the city, and we hear the proclamation from the lawyer called Wisdom. Let’s pay
attention as she presents her case taken from Proverbs Chapter 8, which is
titled…


Wisdom Calls for a Hearing
This is the second of Solomon’s three great poems. We all will do well to listen
to what she has to say as she sets up her case in Chapter 8:6-11,

6 Listen to me! For I have important things to tell you.
Everything I say is right,
7 for I speak the truth
and detest every kind of deception.
8 My advice is wholesome.
There is nothing devious or crooked in it.
9 My words are plain to anyone with understanding,
    clear to those with knowledge.
10 Choose my instruction rather than silver,
    and knowledge rather than pure gold.
11 For wisdom is far more valuable than rubies.
Nothing you desire can compare with it.

Let’s take a seat at the city gates of Jerusalem as the lawyer Wisdom begins her
testimony. As a judge would instruct the jury or courtroom, starting in verse 6,
we are instructed to listen to the woman called Wisdom for she has important
things to tell us.



She lays out her case by informing us that everything she has to tell us is
right and that she speaks the truth. This is because she detests any kind of
deception. Since her advice is wholesome, we can be sure that there is nothing
deceitful or wrong with her testimony.

To make sure that we fully understand, she uses easy to understand language and
not “legalese.” If we have a moral compass within us, her words will be clear.



God uses the Bible to teach us. The Bible is the Word of God. Psalm 19:7-8 tells
us,

7 The instructions of the Lord are perfect,
    reviving the soul.
The decrees of the Lord are trustworthy,
    making wise the simple.
8 The commandments of the Lord are right,
    bringing joy to the heart.
The commands of the Lord are clear,
    giving insight for living.



The lawyer Wisdom instructs us that we need to believe her, but it is our
choice. In verses 10 and 11, she pleads with us to choose her instructions
rather than silver and her knowledge rather than the purest of gold. We should
not be bribed or deluded into settling for something that will perish, but to
seek for that which will last.