Wisdom and the "IF" "Then" statements

Just thinking out loud....

It seems to me that as soon as someone starts mentioning, what I call the "If" statements in the Bible, you will soon hear someone else say, "It's all of grace".   No argument there; however, God makes it clear throughout His Word that we only grow in "grace" and knowledge when and "IF" we are actively communing with God through His Word and Prayer.  Sometimes I think we confuse the "monergistic grace" of God which saves completely and totally with "growing in grace and knowledge" as we walk through this life on earth as a born-again believer.  One must spend time in communion with God after He has brought them from spiritual darkness and death into the light and given them spiritual life, in order to experience and even recognize wisdom from God.

God is not a genie in a lamp that we rub when we need Him to do something for us, i.e. give us wisdom.    Clearly, if we want wisdom from God, there are more things involved then just asking for it.  Let's look at just this one passage in Proverbs Chapter 2:

IF you receive my words

IF you treasure up my commandments

IF you make your ear attentive

IF you incline your heart

IF you call out

IF you seek after it

IF you search for it

THEN you will understand

THEN you will find knowledge

The Value of Wisdom

1 My son, if you receive my words
and treasure up my commandments with you,
2 making your ear attentive to wisdom
and inclining your heart to understanding;
3 yes, if you call out for insight
and raise your voice for understanding,
4 if you seek it like silver
and search for it as for hidden treasures,
5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
8 guarding the paths of justice
and watching over the way of his saints.
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice
and equity, every good path;
10 for wisdom will come into your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11 discretion will watch over you,
understanding will guard you,
12 delivering you from the way of evil,
from men of perverted speech,
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness
to walk in the ways of darkness,
14 who rejoice in doing evil
and delight in the perverseness of evil,
15 men whose paths are crooked,
and who are devious in their ways.