Proverbs 3:13 Happy Is the Man

Proverbs 3:13 (KJV)  Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. 

How can a man be happy? Will he be happy if he has amassed great wealth and is a success in everything he does? What if he was diagnosed with a terminal disease that no amount of money spent could save him. Indeed, for such a man, his world collapsed. Indeed, for man to build his world on material possessions is building on uncertain wealth. 

Matthew 6:19-20 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

This is the man Solomon who also wrote the book of Ecclesiastes. It was a description of the life of a backslider who came to his senses. The prodigal son saw the folly, futility, and fruitlessness of his ways and came back to his father’s house and speak with the hindsight of a wasted life, and yet it was not in vain that he lived his life. 

Happy is the man who finds precious life with the LORD.

He wants to make a point in what constitutes the true happiness of man and he tells us what it is not as he reviews his own life of backsliding and comes to terms with his own folly. It takes courage to admit we are wrong. To admit our own shortcoming, and to write a thesis of confession of our own folly took great soul-searching and honest courage! He hopes that we will live wiser by his own confession. What is that? There is no true happiness outside of God. He tested this thesis his entire life and wants to prove it to us in this book. Amen.