Daniel 1:4 “young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king’s palace. He was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians”
How quick or fast you understand things determine how fast and well you do things in life. Being of quick understanding or being quick to understand means that you are quick in discerning things, or quick to figure out something and to also grasp something.
You see, when you are quick to understand things, it distinguishes you from the masses. It brings you quickly before great people. We see this in our opening text that after king Nebuchadnezzar had captured Jerusalem, he ordered for only young men who are of quick understanding to be brought into the service of his palace.
In life people who are quick to understand easily emerge to the top. It takes great discipline, humility and constant study to be a person of understanding.
People who are slow to understand are very different in their approach to life. They don’t do things as and when expected. Their movement and the sense of urgency to life is very shallow. These are persons you must keep correcting on one error over and over with no positive outcome. You see, if you are quick to understand it manifests in your actions. Because someone who is quick to understand will always look at his or her actions independently. Such people don’t play the blame game. They personally hold themselves responsible and accountable for how they do things, and respond to situations in life.
When you are slow to understanding things, you will never help yourself neither will you also be able to help people around you. 1 Corinthians 14:20 says “Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature”
Read: Isaiah 11:3 “And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears”
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