How will you choose?

"Choose my instruction instead of silver,
knowledge rather than choice gold,
11 for wisdom is more precious than rubies,
and nothing you desire can compare with her" Proverbs 8:10-11

Something that struck me about this verse this morning is the very first word. Choose. We make a conscious choice whether to reach for our Bible or not. We make the choice as to whether or not we receive God's instruction for our lives, and whether or not we act on that instruction. Yet right here, we also have a clue as to why we would want to spend time in God's Word. His instruction is more valuable than silver, gold, or rubies. Nothing that we can desire here on earth is as valuable as the wisdom which we can receive simply by reading the Bible and desiring to understand it's contents.

How exciting!