Benefits

Being wise benefits you. We've already talked about how wisdom can give you protection, good advice, and help you avoid temptations. All of these things are beneficial to you. As we also talked about, it's very obvious that making wise choices will help you in the long run, but we still make bad choices from day to day!

Proverbs 3:1-6 has some more advice for us. It starts out by telling us to remember these wise things that we are told. What good does it do to read something and then forget it? What good does it do to know something if you don't put it to use?

This section of the Proverbs goes on to tell us that if we learn to be wise then we will "gain a good name in the sight of God and man." Wouldn't you like to be known as a trustworthy, wise and good person?

In our lives we all follow paths that are taking us places. Some of your friends will go down paths that you don't go down, and you will grow apart from each other. Even now you may be going down some paths that are leading you to places that you don't want to be. Proverbs 3:6 tells us that if we are looking to God and trying to make wise decisions based on His goals for us, then He will keep our paths straight. We will benefit immensely by heading in the right direction.