Today we are reminded of the eternal nature of wisdom, and that it really is out there waiting for us to take it and use it.  God created the world to work a certain way, and wisdom is about tapping into that, and leveraging that in the way we live.  The author really drills into that today.

I love how he expresses the eternal nature of wisdom.  I think we sometimes read history books, or the Bible, and we look at people that lived in the past as idiots, as simple-mind, or unknowing.  The reality is, there is a difference between learned knowledge and wisdom.  People that lived 100 years ago certainly had less collected learned knowledge...every generation has more than the one before.  But, wisdom...that’s interesting to think about.  Given the distracted nature of our world these days, that many people can’t get free for their cell phone and harvest their attention for something relevant and important, I am not sure we are collectively any ‘wiser’.  In fact, I think wisdom is so ‘learnable’ that most people that live to the age of probably 65 basically get most of what there is to know in terms of wisdom just from living experience.  But, as we’ve discussed, there is a difference between knowing and applying.  The irony of that 65 year old having all of the wisdom is that his life is 75% over, and he has very little time left to apply that wisdom, to let it compound in his favor.  That’s why reading wisdom, learning it, and applying it daily, starting as young as you possibly can while recognizing it is never too late, is so important.

The promise of wisdom, ironically, is the promise of God - all seek her will find her.  Likewise, those who seek God will find Him, as promised by Jesus thousands of years after these words were likely recorded.  Great stuff.