March 9

Proverbs 9:11 states a phenomenal truth, “By wisdom from God shall your days be multiplied and the years of your life be increased.” That’s a tall order! How can wisdom produce what it promises? The clarification for that assertion is related elsewhere in the Word.

In Psalm 33:18, 19, we are told, “The Lord’s eye is upon those who fear Him, who wait for Him and hope in His mercy and loving-kindness to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.” Godly wisdom first compels a man to recognize his need for the Lord and quickens a yearning for His salvation within a man’s heart.

Once that basic need, the need for salvation is realized, the Holy Spirit moves upon the man yet further to open the heart of his understanding to see that the need can be supplied only through the substitutionary death and resurrection of the Lord. Once a man has appropriated Jesus as his personal Savior, he can then be washed clean of all sin.

Now walking in the reverent fear of the Lord and hoping only in Him, the man can be blessed by the hand of God that will open to him at his point of need. Whatever he cannot supply, the God in whom he now trusts has it in His coffers and His eye is upon the people who wisely look to Him for all the longing of their lives! Jesus will overcome their circumstances—including famine and death!