You see God will bless some with knowledge and some with wisdom, but understanding is for each of us to seek out, for there is glory in the seeking. Seeking is a journey, and all journeys help us to grow, and we grow more from the journey itself than we do from simply obtaining the goal we had in mind. God wants us all to be seekers, because He knows that when we seek we are changed by the process and by the journey, and that we are changed for the better. So why then does God want us to receive wisdom and knowledge, but to seek understanding? Well the reason is this, wisdom and knowledge gives us the information to act, but understanding gives us the why, and God lives in the why. With the gifts we can perform, but when we seek after understanding God, we become seekers of God, and God wants a people who are searching for Him. This seeking for understanding is what drives great men and women of God to become world changers, not because they sought to change the world, but because they sought out God.