True health, wealth, and wisdom are not found at the bottom of a self-help list—they begin with fearing God.

The book of Proverbs is a handbook for living, and at its center is a single truth: wisdom is more valuable than rubies, and everything desirable is not to be compared with it. Most people pursue health, wealth, and success as ends in themselves, but this booklet shows that they are byproducts—the natural result of possessing what is infinitely greater. When Solomon asked God for wisdom rather than riches or power, God was so pleased that He gave Solomon both wisdom and everything he had not asked for.

Adrian Rogers traces the incomparable worth of wisdom through its three sources: the provision of the Father who delights to give it, the work of the Holy Spirit who teaches and applies it, and the presence of the Son who is Himself the wisdom of God incarnate. He then lays out the infallible path to wisdom—pursuing the Scriptures with appreciation, appropriation, assimilation, and activation, while praying with intensity, insistency, and expectancy. Knowledge comes by looking around; wisdom comes by looking up, and it is only found in full measure when Christ enters the heart.