“What does a wise life look like? What does a wise life look like? I want to be sure that we’re all on the same page as I begin.
That word wise is carefully chosen. In the Old Testament, the word for wisdom is coming from a very agrarian and earthy context. In Hebrew, you always start with the physical and the earthy and work your way forward to the more metaphorical or spiritual or less earthy.
So this word wisdom is used in the Old Testament for stonemasons and wood carvers. If you wanted to translate it in English, literally you would say skill. So the whole idea initially of this word is, you would look at something that a stonemason had made or someone who works with wood.”
“For those of you who know Granger McCoy in South Carolina, he comes to mind and you look at what they’ve done with the wood and you say, wow, that took a lot of effort, that took a lot of skill. How did you make that fantastic piece of art out of that piece of wood? It takes skill, that’s wisdom, in terms of its imprint on physical stuff.
And then it becomes metaphorical. And what it means is what you do not with wood or with metal or with stones, but what you do with life. You’ve been given the gift of life.
You actually didn’t have to be here. Do you know this about yourself? We didn’t need you.
God didn’t need you. He didn’t need the world. He didn’t have to make us.
He didn’t have to make this day. It’s all grace. It’s all gift.
But you’ve been given the gift of life. God gave it to each one of us. And the question is this, if you look at someone’s, not their stones or their painting or their woodwork, but if you look at their life, their whole life, all that they are, all that they do, can you then say, “wow-that is beautiful!?”
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