Start Digging

The Grands love it when PopC gets our the metal detector! How exciting when they discover those buried "treasures." God said, "A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels to understand a proverb, and the interpretations; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings." (Proverbs 1:5-6). What a tragedy when we quickly read a Scripture passage but fail to dig the riches through study and meditation. J. Vernon McGee tells of visiting the place where Thomas Edison worked in his lab in search of synthetic rubber. McGee writes, "Do you know he found some of it in dandelions, of all things. That would be the last place I would look ... As I stood in the laboratory and looked at those hundreds of test tubes and thought of the hours that he and his helpers had spent there testing this and that and the other thing in order to try to find it, I thought, 'my, how little attention is given to the Word of God where one could do some real testing and some real study.'" When was the last time you set aside time to really mine the jewels of Truth from God's Word? James 1:5 says, "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him." The Word of God - the perfect place to find perfect wisdom. Start digging!