Will You Receive the Benediction?

Prov 2:1-5
Good friend, take to heart what I'm telling you;
collect my counsels and guard them with your life. 
2 Tune your ears to the world of Wisdom;
set your heart on a life of Understanding. 
3 That's right — if you make Insight your priority,
and won't take no for an answer, 
4 Searching for it like a prospector panning for gold,
like an adventurer on a treasure hunt, 
5 Believe me, before you know it Fear-of-GOD will be yours;
you'll have come upon the Knowledge of God. 
(from THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language © 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson. All rights reserved.)