Salvation is not an also-ran in your life. It is not a matter of, Oh, I will come to Christ, I will yield to him my life, I will ask him to bless me, and then I will go on doing all these things I enjoy in the world, and retain this ambition and that ambition, and this pleasure and that pleasure. Some people think you can run both together, they think you can seek Christ, and be a worldling. There is a lot of that going on these days, and you hear of Christian pop stars so called, trying to combine living for the Lord, with living as worldlings, living for self and for worldly culture. No it is not possible. This is what this illustration means.
How many of us have done this? How many of us have actually valued wisdom as something quite different from knowledge: the ability to have insight, to be shrewd, to take decisions, to get guidance, to have this abundant common-sense, to see and read situations? It is not until we really want that, and value that, and we realise that we are pygmies (however much knowledge we have) if we haven't this to go with it. It is when we begin to desire wisdom and go after it and value it that we find it. It won't come unless we do, so that's a second great principle: wisdom has to be valued and has to be embraced.