On the way back home from dropping off the boys at school I was thinking about “wisdom”. I read lots of books, blog posts, Facebook status updates, and Tweets that claim to be, or are lauded as, wisdom. This may or may not be depending on the content of each assertion, but it occurs to me that there must be something of The Eternal in any discussion of what can be rightly deemed as wisdom.
Surely eternal wisdom cannot exist in a universe void of eternal knowledge, just as eternal knowledge cannot exist in a universe void of eternal truth, and eternal truth cannot exist in a universe outside of which The Eternal does not exist. The existence of a universe without The Eternal holds only temporal wisdom which is no true wisdom at all. In this universe wisdom is used to fill the void left by the absence of The Eternal. It is fleeting at best, and completely empty at worst.
Finally, it occurs to me that it operates as a proof rather than a contradiction for the existence of The Eternal that human beings can discuss wisdom in such terms to begin with!