My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; if you indeed cry out for insight, and raise your voice for understanding; if you seek it like silver, and search for it as for hidden treasures— then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk blamelessly, guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his faithful ones. Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path; for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; prudence will watch over you; and understanding will guard you. It will save you from the way of evil, from those who speak perversely, who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil; those whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways. (Proverbs 2:1-15, NRSV)
Where does your wisdom come from?
As I watched the opening of the 2014 Winter Olympics there was a discussion of why the countries were entering in the order the entered in. It of course is because they go by the alphabet of the hosting country. The host is Sochi and therefore they used the Cyrillic alphabet. The point of all this is at one point one of the commentators said “if you need more information on the Cyrillic alphabet, Google it.”
This is interesting, because anytime we do not know what something is, or if we need more information what do we do? We Google it.
In confirmation class when I ask what something means, more times than not I will get the question, can we use our phones to look it up? And if I say yes, where will they go, to Google.
Do we look at Google as a repository of information, and wisdom?
This brings to mind a quote from Attack of the Clones Star Wars movie II. Ob1 goes to see a friend, Dex, about a dart they found. Dex says to Ob1, “I thought you Jedi would know the difference between knowledge and wisdom.”
You see Google is a great repository of knowledge, but it is not a place of Wisdom!
Our wisdom only comes from the One who created us all (and Google too!).
Look to God as your ultimate source of wisdom and walk on His paths daily!
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