Get Understanding!

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. (Proverbs 4:7 KJV)

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. (James 3:13-18 KJV)

Wisdom is something to desire and seek after for sure as one can see from the scriptures above.
One can also see that there is more to get as well as wisdom and that is understanding.

Understanding can be looked at in at least two ways as I view it. The first way to look at what understanding is for us is the correct application of wisdom. Wisdom is knowledge of what is correct to do but if it is not correctly applied to our lives it has been gotten in vain. Solomon was wise but after a while lacked proper understanding where what he knew was not applied to his own life and he was drawn aside from doing what was right to do. His judgement was clouded. The second way to view understanding can be seen in the correct identification of wisdom and it's source. For instance in the Garden of Eden the serpent told eve that if she would eat from the tree in in the midst of the garden that her eyes would be opened. Eve lacked understanding of the source of the wisdom offered to her because it touched her physical senses as being good.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. (Genesis 3:6 KJV)

We need to depend on God's Word and not our senses only in the discernment of the source of the wisdom offered too us. James 3:17 is a guide to understanding the source of wisdom as being from God or not. If we understand the source as being correct then we can endeavor to properly apply the wisdom in our lives with good results.

Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner