Tying this back to our opening thoughts about the end of the school year, that is not a bad theme for a baccalaureate or commencement address. If a graduate or ANYone would choose a worthy goal, Wisdom would be a wonderful choice. If that is indeed your goal, the book of Proverbs has a good deal to say about it, beside the fact that it is so crucially important. In other words, wisdom is not something for which we study or go to school. Wisdom, according to scripture, is one more good gift of a gracious God.
Wisdom is like grits.
He ordered eggs, bacon and toast only to be surprised by an amorphous white mass on his plate when the food was served. Wisdom is like grits. It just comes. I wish I could say that it will eventually be ours, like it or not, if we just wait long enough, but we all be wiser. On the golf course last week, one of my good friends told me that he was quitting cigarettes as of six o'clock that night.