FAITH CAPSULE: Strive to gain the wisdom of God that unlocks understanding.

Proverbs 4

In the life journey, wisdom and understanding will give a knowing edge to arrive at the calling of God.
The word of God requests to ask, and God will not deny.
Jesus is the wisdom of God for all. (1 Corinthians 1:30)
Many claim the wisdom of God but lack the understanding to have a knowing edge.
Proverbs 4:7 buttresses, “wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore, get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.”
In this challenging, unstable world of wickedness, a believer living by the word of God shall have an understanding rooted in wisdom and knowledge to be stable. 
In all you are getting, in addition to the wisdom (if you have it), you must get understanding.
To have understanding, with prayer before God, not by determination, ask from God.
What to ask for in understanding?
Know to ask for an understanding heart to discern.
An understanding heart is what all need to be able to discern between good and evil. When King Solomon went to Gibeon to sacrifice, God appeared to him in a dream to ask him what to do for him.
King Solomon asked God, “Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?” (1 Kings 3:9) 
The request of Solomon pleased the Lord.
PRAYER
Ask for an understanding heart to discern just like King Solomon did.
Understanding the heart to discern will be able to see and detect in the endeavors of this wicked world.
Know to ask for understanding to avoid a pathless wilderness.
Job, in times of painful challenges his life responded to the critics over his life, “He takes away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, And makes them wander in a pathless wilderness.” (Job 12:24)
Has your wilderness journey exposed you to unceasing critics asking about your distance from God?
A wilderness journey of life comes with a path and is with the prescription of God to arrive at the promise of God. God directed the Israelites in the wilderness journey that leads to the Promised Land. Exodus 13:17-18 records, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt. So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.” 
It is the understanding of God that will lead in the path of wilderness to arrive at the calling of God.
PRAYER
Ask God to enable you not to walk in a pathless wilderness of the life journey. 
Ask for the understanding to hear and do according to the direction of God.
Gain understanding from God that is a source to live life for the glory of God.