Welcome back to the morning mindset from Live Build Change. We are here together this

morning again so that we can set our minds right. We can get ourselves ready for this day.

Don't think too far ahead, just think about this day. And we're learning about wisdom. We've

been looking at the book of Proverbs for some time now.

And we've camped in chapter 8 for a bit where the writer of Proverbs has

personified wisdom. He characterizes wisdom as a woman who is calling out with compassion and

zeal to those who had listened, to take her advice and to understand how valuable her words are.

And verse number 12 is where we're going to pick up today.

Says I wisdom dwell with prudence and I find knowledge and discretion.

Let's stop for a moment and examine what that means.

I dwell with prudence and I find knowledge in discretion.

Discretion, prudence, those are words we don't use a whole lot in our day.

But they're words that describe a quality of assessing situations and making wise decisions in light of what we

determine by our assessment. Prudence is being careful and shrewd and wise about a course of action or a decision to make.

Discretion is being careful about the things that are going on around us and making sure we

understand the situation before we take action.

And wisdom says those characteristics are inherent in the way it operates.

The next verse says the fear of the Lord is hatred of evil.

Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech, I hate.

Now this concept of the fear of the Lord is often coupled with wisdom. There is a passage in the Proverbs as well that says the fear of the Lord is the beginning

of wisdom.

Why might that be? Well I think we have to understand what the

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