“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11)
Growing Dominion, Part 98
“How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver” (Prov. 16:16).
This is another interesting comparison in Proverbs. If you have to choose, choose this over that. If you choose gold over wisdom, and silver over understand, then you have chosen foolishly. If you insist dogmatically that you don’t have to choose, and that wisdom and gold always go together, you have spoken foolishly. When God gave Solomon a choice at the beginning of his reign, he chose wisdom, period. In addition to this, God also gave him wealth—which would not have happened had Solomon chosen wealth alone, or if he had tried to smuggle wealth into the wisdom package himself. We often try to work the system—like a man who is offered three wishes by the genie in the bottle, and his first wish is fifty wishes. God is not a system, and cannot be worked. Seek first the kingdom, Jesus said, and all these things will be added. But He does the adding—we do not.