Proverbs 24:3-4 — Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

Yesterday I wrote about my wonder at flying over the Rockies. But the best part of the journey was the end! For me, Shakespeare had it right — “Journey’s end in lover’s meeting”. I don’t hate business travel, and I do really love a lot of the places I go to — but being away from my sweetheart is NO fun at all! The best part of any journey is coming home.
The thing is though, I have a home to go to. I am the lucky beneficiary married to the wise woman about whom Solomon said, “Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.” (Proverbs 14:1 KJV)
There’s more too it though than that. The “house” in Proverbs 23:3-4 is really describing much more than the bricks and mortar, or even the interior decoration. It’s a picture of the whole of life. “Wisdom” carries the idea of moral principles as well as shrewdness. Solid morality, and the “wisdom of serpents” are required both for the building of houses and the building of lives.
In the same way, “Chambers” doesn’t just describe the nicely furnished rooms, it talks about the heart, mind and soul.
There is yet more to this, however. Wisdom does not just build our physical house and home. Wisdom does not just build our character and spirit. Wisdom builds our future house and home. “For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.” (Hebrews 13:14 KJV)
We have our houses and homes … but there is a danger in being too attached. We should know that we might be called by God at any time to leave, to go where he wants us to go. We might, like the people of Peter’s epistle, be driven away by the “powers that be” in this world. The previous verse in a Hebrews 13 says, “Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.” The picture is of Jesus being crucified outside the walls of Jerusalem, like a sacrificial beast burned outside the camp, to avoid the impurity staining the sanctuary. If Jesus would do that for us, we must be prepared to leave our earthly homes for Him …Wisdom demands it and will reward it with an eternal home.