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Proverbs 1:33

Peace and safety, or fear and destruction? The choice is yours. God offers wisdom in His word. If you ignore or reject wisdom, He will laugh at your fear and desert you in your calamities (1:24-32). If you love and exalt wisdom, He will bless you with tranquility. The choice is yours. The consequences of a foolish choice are severe. Choose wisdom!

The adversative conjunction but indicates a contrast. Solomon had personified wisdom as a woman in the context (1:20-23), and his Lady Wisdom had warned men that neglecting her offers would bring horrible pain and suffering (1:24-32). A wise man spares himself most troubles of life, but fools are punished severely and often (8:36; 13:15; 22:3).

Tranquility is a wonderful thing. It is the good life. It is calm, happiness, peace, and safety. It is obtained only one way but through two doors. The one way is wisdom. Only those who fear God and keep His commandments will have lasting tranquility. They find it from two sources - the blessed results of right decisions and God's supernatural favor.

Consider. If you marry wisely by God's rules, you will have peace and pleasure with a virtuous woman, while other men suffer in marital hell with an odious woman (12:4; 30:21-23; 31:10-31). By marrying a God-fearing spouse to honor God (31:30; I Cor 7:39; 11:11), He will bless you further by His divine power (I Sam 2:30; Ps 37:4; 84:11).

Wisdom is not difficult. It begins with fearing the Lord (1:7; 9:10). It ends with keeping His commandments (3:7; 16:6; Job 28:28; Ps 111:10; 112:1; 119:128; Eccl 12:13). God has revealed perfect knowledge and wisdom in the Bible, and learning and obeying the Bible will bring wisdom to a man or a nation (Deut 4:5-6; Ps 1:1-3; 19:7-11; 144:15).

God gave Solomon tranquility for his answer in a dream (I Kgs 3:5-15). He valued wisdom over money, success, and long life, so God blessed him with honor, peace, and riches. But King Nebuchadnezzar, a rich and very successful king, lost his tranquility and was put out to pasture for continuing in sin (Dan 4:27-33). Reader, the choice is yours.

Here are great promises! Wisdom will give you safety, and it will save you from even the fear of danger! Glory! Here is ultimate tranquility! No danger in sight, and no fear in your heart or mind! You can walk confidently through life and sleep sweetly at night (3:21-26)! God kept David in the bundle of life, but He slung out his enemies to death (I Sam 25:29)! If you put your trust in the Almighty, He will protect you from every danger and risk that you can or cannot see or hear (Ps 91:1-16). Glory! Embrace wisdom now!

The righteous are bold as a lion (28:1)! There is perfect peace that passes human understanding for those who fear God and keep His commandments (14:26; Ps 25:12-13; 112:7; Is 26:3-4; Phil 4:6-7). David mocked fear; he did not care if an army should declare war against him (Ps 27:1-14). Paul mocked death and the grave through Jesus Christ (I Cor 15:54-58). He faced Caesar alone with the Lord with him (II Tim 4:16-18).

God saved wise Noah, while He drowned the foolish world around him. And God will save wise men in the coming day of wrath, when He punishes fools with everlasting torment, just as He saved wise Jews from the Roman destruction (Mal 4:1-3; Rom 8:35-39; I Thess 1:10). The wiser you live, the more peace you will have outside and inside (John 14:27; 16:33; I John 4:17-18). What hinders you from embracing wisdom?

Reader, are you hearkening to wisdom today? Are you seeking wisdom? Loving her? And obeying her? Hear God now! "What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth" (Ps 34:12-16).

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