(Think this accidentally posted three weeks ago.)

Proverbs 1:5–6 (Wisdom)

There is a particular kind of exhausting person who already knows everything. You’ve met them. They don’t need advice, don’t ask questions, and have an opinion ready before you’ve finished your sentence. This person is totally annoying. They are usually braggarts and blowhards. They don’t display any wisdom, just opinion.

The worst part? Sometimes that’s us!

Solomon has a word for that posture, and it isn’t flattering. In contrast, verse 5 describes the truly wise person as someone who keeps on learning, implying that wisdom and teachability are inseparable. You cannot have one without the other.

What’s striking here is the audience. Solomon isn’t addressing beginners in verses 5–6. He’s addressing the wise and the discerning — people who have already done some growing. And his instruction to them is: don’t stop.

There is always a deeper layer of understanding to reach, always a proverb to sit with longer, always a riddle that rewards patience. Spiritual maturity isn’t a destination you arrive at and unpack your bags. It’s a direction you keep walking.

And it changes with our seasons. What I needed wisdom for twenty years ago is very different from the kind of wisdom I need now.

This is genuinely good news for those of us who feel like we don’t have it all figured out, which, if we’re honest, is all of us. The person still asking questions, still underlining her Bible, still showing up to learn even after decades of faith, that person is exactly who Solomon is describing. Their humility is not weakness. It is wisdom in action.

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Reflect: Is there an area of your faith where you’ve stopped asking questions or assumed you already know enough?

Pray: Lord, keep me teachable. Guard me from the pride that stops learning and the complacency that stops growing. I want to be a woman who increases in wisdom all the days of my life — not because I’m impressive, but because You are worth knowing more deeply. Amen.