Bible Verses About

“For wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire can compare with her.” Proverbs 8:11

This Bible verse about wisdom astonishes me.  It’s essentially saying that the greatest thing a person can desire is wisdom.  That’s very surprising to me at first glance.  I would have expected that the utmost thing a person could desire would be something like loving relationships with God and with others.  But then it struck me that wisdom is really a path to every other good thing in life.  A truly wise person naturally has healthy and loving relationships with other people.  They realize that simple worldly pleasures, selfish ambitions, and all the other things that corrupt us and stand in the way of becoming the people we were meant to be.  Truly wise people desire all other good things, things like peace, contentment, and love.  That is, to me, why wisdom is the utmost thing that a person can desire, because wisdom is a gateway to all other good things a person can desire.  Without wisdom we are fools, getting trapped by foolish desires that won’t ever bring us to the happiness, satisfaction, and meaning we thought we’d one day find.  Without wisdom, can we ever really desire things like peace and love and contentment?  Without wisdom, how can we ever overcome the selfish desires that so often come to trap us?  Nothing you desire can compare with wisdom.