As a child, did your parents ever tell you, “You should have listened to me.”?  Of course, when you heard those words you had obviously done something you were instructed by your parents not to do.  They, out of love, were trying to tell you that there are consequences for your actions.

I remember a time when I was young.  An older couple in our block had a granddaughter who was the same age as me.  She lived in California and would come to Kentucky to visit her grandparents in the summer.  We would always play together.  On one particular day, I had been instructed on when to return home.  Well, I was so caught up in playing and did not listen to my mother calling from three yards away for me to come home.  When I finally decided to go home, my mother had locked the exterior glass and screen door.  I knocked on the door.  I could see my mother working in the kitchen, but she ignored me.  I knocked harder and louder.  When I knocked the last time, my hand missed the metal frame of the door and went through the glass.  That definitely grabbed my mother’s attention!  Once she attended to me and saw that I was fine, I received one of the few spankings I ever remember receiving.  Her words to me were, “You should have listened to me, and this would not have happened”.

In our Scripture today, it tells us to listen to wisdom and keep its ways.  Keep watch for wisdom.  “…those who find me find life and receive favor from the Lord”.  (v. 35)  How awesome is that?!  Wisdom has built her house and prepared a meal.  Chapter 9, Verse 6 tells us to “Leave your simple ways and live; walk in the way of insight.”