{"id":1435,"date":"2013-04-22T08:38:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T12:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2013-06-26T11:09:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:09:30","slug":"where-is-the-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"Where is the Wisdom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tree-of-wisdom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1436\" title=\"tree-of-wisdom\" src=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tree-of-wisdom-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tree-of-wisdom-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tree-of-wisdom.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Few pursuits of the human heart predate our search for wisdom.\u00a0 The tempter was confident that, even in a perfect world, his seductions would find an ear once the woman saw \u2018that the tree was desirable to make one wise\u2019 (Gen. 3:6).\u00a0 The record of our rebel race since that time reveals discoveries of knowledge and technology that are nothing short of breathtaking.\u00a0 Yet, T.S. Eliot still rightly asks:\u00a0 \u2018Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?\u00a0 Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>At the dawn of the nuclear age, General Omar Bradley rightly observed, \u2018Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.\u00a0 If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.\u2019\u00a0 The exponential growth of technological knowledge since that day has rendered us neither wiser nor godlier.\u00a0 We have, however, lost something priceless, something that no amount of mere information can regain for us.<\/p>\n<p>Now, more than ever, we must know wisdom and no better starting point for doing so can be found than the Book of Proverbs.\u00a0 From its pages, God promises to set us on \u2018The path of life\u2019 (Prov. 15:24) and to rescue us from \u2018the way of death\u2019 (14:12; 16:25).&#8221; (<a title=\"Proverbs: A Mentor Commentary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Proverbs-Mentor-Commentary-John-Kitchen\/dp\/1845500598\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1251481962&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Proverbs: A Mentor Commentary<\/a>, p.11)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Few pursuits of the human heart predate our search for wisdom.\u00a0 The tempter was confident that, even in a perfect world, his seductions would find an ear once the woman saw \u2018that the tree was desirable to make one wise\u2019 (Gen. 3:6).\u00a0 The record of our rebel race since that time reveals discoveries of knowledge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-proverbs","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-n9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}