he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
guarding the paths of justice
and watching over the way of his saints.
Proverbs 2:7-8
The book of Proverbs provides so much clarity! There are a million clamoring voices every day in the world. God’s wisdom raises a louder voice if we will listen.
Social media has become a cacophony of short-term memory grabbing nothingness and ludicrous foolishness. The classic example: The Facebook reel. In no more than thirty seconds, often less than ten seconds, something we will not remember even five minutes later arrests the viewer’s attention. Maybe it is meant to inform, amuse, or just shock you. It just doesn’t stay long enough to help you! It is fleeting foolishness. The content creator hopes it might be impactful. It isn’t. You can waste so much time and energy scrolling through an incessant stream of what is for the most part unsound human foolishness and AI generated nonsense. I know this because I have fallen for it. :-(
Foolishness might at times have an appeal that seems worthwhile (“I wonder what this is?”) but later proves itself quickly to be a waste of time, intellect, and attention. And sadly it leads to more than wasted time. The data shows that people who spend copious amounts of time scrolling the wasteland of meaningless content suffer from depression and have difficulty connecting in meaningful relationships. You see it in public when a couple is glued to their phones at a restaurant or coffee shop. They might hold up their phones to each other. But the rest of the time their heads are down. There is no personal connection. That scrolling is I think both a symptom and a cause. It is brutal. It is foolish. It is evil used for destruction. Doom scrolling is not a path to wisdom.
God is our source of sound wisdom. A few minutes in the Book of Proverbs will make you wise. It is the opposite of mindless doom scrolling. It is mindful impact and soul changing truth from “the scroll of wisdom”! The wisdom of God helps us live upright lives. The wisdom of God leads to choices that when followed lead us to live lives with integrity in a crooked world. Wisdom helps us feel for what God feels, strengthening our consciences. We see His ways of justice. We love the truth. And God in turn watches over His saints who will search out sound wisdom.
Lord,
Arrest my attention with the bright wisdom of Your Word. The world offers only that which leads to my moral, intellectual, and spiritual decay. May Your wisdom be my delight. May I search for Your wisdom like precious gold… carefully and mindfully mine Your truth like silver!
Amen
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