Increasing in wisdom

"Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning" (Proverbs 9:9).

One of the great characteristics of a wise person is that they are eager to continue to learn. You will cease to be wise when you no longer have a willingness to learn the ways of God and apply them to your life.

Some claim that they don't read the bible because they can't understand it. Apart from the Spirit of God we will not understand the things of the God. The Apostle Paul wrote, "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned" (1 Cor. 2:14). If you have been born again the Spirit of God resides in you to teach you and enable you to live a godly life. When the spirit teaches you something he's also expecting you to apply it. If we don't apply what we are learning we won't increase in wisdom. "The way to understand the parts of the bible you don't understand, is to obey the parts you do understand. Understand?" (Adrian Rogers).