“How blessed is the man who finds wisdom and the man who gains understanding. For her profit is better than the profit of silver and her gain better than fine gold.”
(Proverbs 3:13-14)
The New York Herald Printed news of the discovery of gold in August 1848 & the rush for gold accelerated into a stampede. When the news of the discovery spread, it resulted in some 300,000 men, women, & children coming to California from the rest of the United States & abroad. Gold seekers traveled overland across the mountains to California, some took the round-about sea routes, either to Panama or around Cape Horn & then up the Pacific coast to San Francisco. In their quest for unguaranteed fortune, the 49ers as they came to be known, risked life limb & sometimes family, as they traveled through often unsettled lands to quench their thirst for gold.
How great it would be if men & women would crave wisdom today as much as the 49ers did gold back in the 1800’s. Proverbs says that the man who finds wisdom is gaining something way more precious than Gold & Silver. But often we ask what true wisdom really is. In 1 Corinthians 1:30 we are told that Jesus Christ “…became to us wisdom from God…” Jesus is true wisdom, & in James we are told “…if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.” The search for true wisdom, (Jesus Christ), is more profitable than anything anyone on earth could ever gain & it can be gained when we seek Him, but unlike the Gold Rush of 1849 finding this fortune is 100% guaranteed.
Vern
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