Teaching Your Children to Embrace Wisdom

PART 1

Proverbs 8-9

These chapters seem to go together with one primary theme: Wisdom

What is wisdom?

What are the steps to wisdom?

What is the value of wisdom?

Proverbs 8

What is wisdom?

Dictionary defines it like this:

• the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment; the quality of being wise:
• the ability to contemplate and act productively using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense, and insight
• The ability to do right regardless of inward yearnings, outward pressures, or eventual outcomes
• Godly skill for life
• The right way to live our lives
• Seeing a situation as God does; Acting on it as God wills; Learning from it as God intended

What are the steps to wisdom?

v1 Wisdom and Understanding are personified

1. Remember:
   1. Proverbs are words of wisdom - truths to live by
      1. They help us train our children\
      2. They help our children make good choices and live successfully
      3. They lead individuals, homes, and nations to discover God's blessings
      4. WE HAVE TO LEARN FROM THEM
   2. Proverbs are Inspired Scripture
      1. REMEMBER THAT THEY ARE TRUE
      2. Sometimes they are pictures
         • Think on them and learn from them...
      3. Sometimes they are literal
         • Apply them
2. v4 Calls to the Simple and the Fool
   1. Anyone can seek wisdom and find it.
   2. We must teach it to our children - Solomon is teaching it tho his son
   3. Wisdom itself speaks to our children
   4. Our children must also seek it themselves (see verse 17)

We diligently teach it; wisdom itself speaks it; our children continually seek it

A powerful 3 fold cord...this provides a wonderful foundation for our lives and our futures and our families.