June 20, 2025

Whether you are rich or poor, wisdom in either situation will help you manage life more easily. If you haven’t already prayed for God to give you wisdom, let today be the day and mark it down. If you are rich, wisdom will help you maintain your wealth, but if you are poor, it will make you continent with what you have. Matthew Henry puts it this way:

“Wisdom is not only good for the poor, to make them content and easy, but it is good for the rich too, good with riches to keep a man from getting hurt by them, and to enable a man to do good with them.”

Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it. Ecclesiastes 7:11-12

Being wise certainly has an advantage, but the wisest of all choose to follow the steps of Jesus, know him, love him, and keep his commands to love God and love people.