Knowledge is knowing a lot of information about a lot of different things. Wisdom is being able to solve problems, to create things, knowing what to do and what to say in any situation or circumstance in order to succeed. Understanding is knowing why things are happening the way they are and knowing why people do what they do, being able to see beneath the surface of events in life.

People have the ability and potential to grow in knowledge, understanding, and wisdom as they grow older because of the lessons of life experienced on our own journeys, but many do not learn those lessons, in fact it appears that most do not.

Proverbs says that a major requirement to grow in these three is to seek them like gold, silver, and precious treasure. The first step in being a seeker is to read the Bible regularly and often, and then add to that systematically memorizing key passages and verses in the Bible and meditate on them daily.

Knowledge, understanding and wisdom seekers are readers, they have developed the habit of reading a lot in a variety of areas. They also listen to good teachers and speakers on a variety of subjects. With the modern day “podcast” listening to those with wisdom, knowledge, and understanding is easy. A major reason to build our pursuit of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom on a steady and large dose of the Bible is that you will be able to sort through all the books and teachers and eliminate the ones who teach error.

A steady flow of information into our head and heart will orient our minds to being in a constant state of seeking and learning. All day long as we live life we will be observing, listening, evaluating and storing information. The more we learn in our reading, listening, and experiencing the faster we can learn more and grow rapidly in knowledge, understanding and wisdom. It is like learning math, you won’t learn much algebra until you have basic math down.

So the bottom line is make goal to read, study, and memorize the Bible. Make a book reading goal. Make a listening goal. Write them down and read them everyday. Develop a routine so that you mostly read in the same place and at the same time every day. Listen while driving, exercising, mowing your lawn, and doing other activities. Being a seeker, a learner is a developed lifestyle, pursue that lifestyle diligently. There are a lot of old fools running around, determine not to be one.