Proverbs 24

Again I am impressed by the practical power of wisdom and knowledge:

³ By wisdom a house is built,
    and through understanding it is established;
⁴ through knowledge its rooms are filled
    with rare and beautiful treasures.

 

⁵ The wise prevail through great power,
    and those who have knowledge muster their strength.

¹⁴ Know also that wisdom is like honey for you:
    If you find it, there is a future hope for you,
    and your hope will not be cut off.

Life doesn’t have to be a conundrum. We can build lives of true substance and value with wisdom and knowledge. Real, and eternal, worth comes from these and not things or money or position. This is one of the reasons that the anti-intellectualism of Evangelicalism is a tragedy. As some are of fond of saying, Christianity isn’t a religion, it’s a relationship. As if we could really know God without knowledge of him that comes from study and learning. And since God has revealed himself in creation, in Scripture and in Christ, there is an awfully lot for us to know. You might even say an infinite, literally, number of things to know because God is infinite. God is also the ultimate synthesis, the ultimate universal that puts all knowledge together.

There is a lot human beings can grasp just from general revelation, a la Plato and Aristotle, but we can’t know ultimately and finally without God’s revelation to us in Scripture and Christ. Because this life, fleeting and ultimately frustrating and unsatisfying, only points us to life eternal, which can only be had in Christ. Our future hope, which will not be cut off, is in wisdom, and what is wisdom is who is wisdom, is Christ himself. The logos, the one who puts all things together, who makes everything fit together.