These are wonderful promises of God, and this is an insight into the way of wisdom. We like to use this text as an encouragement to the young, but it is not strictly what it is referring to: ‘those that seek me early [in life] shall find me.
It is amazing to see people who are as green as green about spiritual things, and they know nothing. Of course they know nothing, they are unsaved. And then God saves them, and almost within no time, they are into sophisticated things, and they are just leaping ahead, and understanding the deep things of God, and complex doctrines, enabled to discuss them, and warm to them. Wisdom is a wonderful thing. It does not matter about your natural intelligence. Divine wisdom draws you forward wonderfully, and you learn at such a pace.
There is another application to this too: those of us who seek him early in a problem will find him and will be blessed. What do we do? Panic first? Allow self-pity to run through us first? All kinds of other things? Whoever seeks the Lord early in the trial shall find him and wisdom straightaway.