In your living, learn. One way I learn is from my own experiences. Life teaches many, many lessons.

Another way I should learn is from the experiences of others. The wisdom they have picked up from their own living is there for me to “harvest.” But I must pay attention to it.

So, I should live and learn.

And after learning, I should live somemore…according to the wisdom I have learned.

Is that what this next verse says? Probably not. But that’s the direction my thoughts went.

“My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding” (Proverbs 5:1).

Godly wisdom is all around me. I need to catch it and live by it.

Out in the woods. Walking. A path branching away. A quick impulse. Leave my trail. Not for long. Backtrack to my path.

I have taken brief side trips on many hikes. Just exploring a bit here and satisfying my curiosity a little there, you know.

Usually, that’s fine on a hike.

But not in life, not when my main path is God’s way.

“Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men” (Proverbs 4:14).

Not even for a bit. Not in my reading, not in my thinking, not in my music, not in my speech, not in my attitudes, not in my whatever.

Just stay out of the ungodly way.

Don’t even step into it for a little.