Wisdom Vs. Foolishness

Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.
~Proverbs 10:23

What you find amusing, interesting, and entertaining speaks volumes about your character. Here are just a few examples:

• What do you find yourself laughing at? 
• What kinds of movies/books are you drawn to?
• Who do you like to associate with, and why? Is it because they keep you accountable, or because you can get away with foolishness and evil without being "judged"? (Keep in mind that the only people who use that word are the ones whose consciences are being eaten away at, and they don't want anyone to tell them they're doing anything wrong.)
• How do you use your time on the internet? Would you be okay with your parents (wife, husband, siblings, fill in the blank) knowing all your web history?
• What does your everyday speech consist of? Gossip? Crassness? Impurity? Slander? (All these elements can appear in extremely subtle forms, unless you're deeply and consistently in tune with God's Word.)

Instead, we must take pleasure in, and strive after, wisdom. The fear of the Lord is the BEGINNING of wisdom. (Psalm 111:10, Proverbs 1:7) You can't have one without the other. Just like you can't have a garden without having seeds first. If you don't have the Word deeply planted in you, you won't bear good fruit.

Here's the question: is wisdom a pleasure to you, or is it a pain in the neck, so to say? Does it attract you, or does it annoy you?

Look carefully at what grabs your interest, and examine it: does it flirt with foolishness, worldliness and evil? Or is it full of wisdom and understanding?
Are you loving God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength? (Mark 12:30) For (possibly unnecessary) clarification, if you only "love" Him with a small section of your mind, thinking about God sometimes, and the rest of the time filling your head with impure thoughts and images unrepentantly, that is NOT loving God.

Here's the good news: God can take and old, gross plot of dirt and turn it into something beautiful and full of good fruit. Let's pursue wisdom together, and see how God uses our lives for His glory.