The Benefits of Wisdom: Preservation of Life

The Benefits of Wisdom: Preservation of Life

The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of wisdom. –Proverbs 10:21

In continuation of our series on the benefits of wisdom, the passage above highlights one more benefit for our meditation today: the preservation of life. The Bible says, “fools die for lack of wisdom.” On the obverse side, wisdom preserves one’s life and sustains the length of days.

That means there are many deaths that could have resulted from folly on the part of the dying or dead individuals. Now death could mean physical death, spiritual death, death of dreams, abortion of destiny or potential. Whichever way we may choose to look at it, death signifies the extinction of something and a final stoppage to the continued existence of an entity or endeavour.

Now, as seen in our reference scripture, God has pointed out to us that a lack of wisdom is one of the causes of untimely death. That means for us to live long and enjoy an uninterrupted run in the pursuit of our purpose, dreams and other life aspirations, we must eschew folly and embrace wisdom. How do we do that? We demonstrate wisdom or a lack of it in our daily choices and decision-making. What we do, think or say, how we do them, where and when we do them, are reflections of wisdom or folly, and to what extent we are endowed with it.

Since we all desire long life and fullness of days, we now know that wisdom is an essential ingredient in achieving that. And whereas fools cut short their own days and stint because of lack of wisdom, “wisdom gives life to those who have it” (Ecclesiastes 7:12).

Also read:

• The Benefits of Wisdom: Multiple Days
• Big Monster Feet
• Understanding God: He is Omnipotent
• What if…
• God Gave Me Faith To Believe

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