Devoted to what we can measure as a means of determining value and truth, we have accumulated the largest amount of information ever available to the human race. We collect and organize vast amounts of it. That is an exceptional achievement and it has its contribution to make.
This is the age of information.
But it’s in no danger of being the age of wisdom.
Wisdom asks
• what a fact might mean,
• which facts are important,
• and what the facts might demand of us.
The ancient Hebrew approach to wisdom also asked those questions from a very particular point of view — one that took seriously God’s existence, our mortality, and the importance of living our lives in full recognition of both.
Wisdom harnesses information. Without its discipline, information has the power to confuse, overwhelm, deceive, and mislead.
Jesus Christ is the Wisdom of God. Just knowing about Him is not enough. We must know Him.
I love your words on ancient Hebrew approach to wisdom. Knowledge or information is not wisdom. How we do get things confused today and also complicate what is essentially so easy to understand. Children can easily know Jesus. Suffer them to come to our Lord and may we also be called to come to Him.