Wisdom; a Building Block of Relationships

Proverbs 8:32-36

During the mid-nineties, I transitioned from clinical healthcare delivery to healthcare informatics. Development of the Worldwide Web Contortion (www.com) was well underway.  A primary goal was to spin raw data into marketable gold.

I wrote for healthcare and technology journals for dual purposes of education and marketing collateral. I understood access of information would increase knowledge, while I did not believe it would increase wisdom. Contrary, I knew the potential for a “web of danger as well as marketable gold.”

And when the girl was brought to him he took her into a room which was quite full of straw, gave her a spinning-wheel and a reel, and said, "Now set to work, and if by to-morrow morning early you have not spun this straw into gold during the night, you must die." Rumpelstiltskin: The Brothers Grimm  

 “Now then, my children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.

 Listen to my instruction and be wise; do not disregard it." Proverbs 8:32-33

The invitation of wisdom includes a promise that those who accept will hear of a better and nobler way, thereby avoiding error through hearing and practicing “right things.”

Jesus taught His disciples that blessings result for those who keep wisdom’s ways.

"Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash. Matthew 7:24-27. 

In both scenarios, the people were given the same information, (the knowledge.) To spin information into life-giving gold, the invitation of wisdom requires acceptance of instruction and correction.

“If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. James 1:5