Proverbs 2:1,2
"My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; "
The action phrases: “receive”, “treasure up”, “making [the ear] attentive, and “inclining” seem to require work.
It takes continual effort to get knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. These things don't come easy, and they don't come quick. It takes work, it takes work every day. Receive, find value, listen up, and lean into wisdom. Apply, cry, lift your voice, seek, search.
When you search for silver and hidden treasure it is not done in five minutes of idle time before watching a video. To seek it you must decide where to go. You must decide to go there. You must inspect every rock formation. You must be diligent in research and then methodically and thoroughly comb the area, balancing your resources while doing it. It takes time and it takes resources. You must spend something.
So it is we have to spend something at God's word.
The application (one of them) of seeking understanding, knowledge, and wisdom is to know the right paths, the right way. Men and women, who are wicked, walk the wrong paths. The knowledge of the truth would have shown them the proper way.
How can one know which is wrong and which is right? Ask one who knows, read what he has written. Read the Bible and pray. You must ". . . receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; "
