You can find this week’s Scripture at –
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+2%3A1-11&version=NRSV

• and here are three other translations,
  https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs%202%3A1-11&version=ESV;NET;MSG

VII.
This week we’ve heard the Proverbist call us to pay attention to his words and heard the encouragement to not be a passive listener or merely to repeat back the words we hear but become active in the seeking of wisdom and enter into a conversation with the Proverbist.

So why? Is there a payoff?

Maybe something on the order of –

then you will
understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.
you will understand righteousness and justice
and equity, every good path;
wisdom will come into your heart,
knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
prudence will watch over you;
understanding will guard you.

We are not listening to have the “right answers” when we are asked what we learned.

No, it really seems the “understanding” we will find will show us how to live.

Look at the words used –

righteousness, justice, equity, every good path;

It’s about how to conduct our lives and how to live with others.

It’s a road map on how to walk the Kingdom path.

VIII.
Are you ready to walk along that “good path.”

Do you begin to see how righteousness, justice, equity, prudence and understanding will walk with you?

Sounds to me like a good neighborhood to be in. And we get to help build that neighborhood.

charles
{ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est}