Wisdom of God vs. Wisdom of the Wise, by Ember

Wisdom of God vs. Wisdom of the Wise, why is there a difference? The wise can only be as wise as the information that they have. For example, given that the world is flat and you could sail off the edge, like on the Kansas, Point of Know Return album cover, then not sailing far away from shore or trying to travel around the world would be wise, wouldn't it? But the world is not flat, so it is not unwise to travel around the world like Magellan. The problem arises when people think that they are so certain of their first principles, when really they don't have ALL the information as of yet, and might be wrong on certain points. One wrong assumption can lead to a whole lot of "bad" wisdom.

One example of the Wisdom of God vs. the Wisdom of the Wise is in 1 Kings. I think it is funny and I wanted to use it as the example.

Then King Rehob'oam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, "How do you advise me to answer this people?" And they said to him, "If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants for ever." But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.  1Kings 12:6-8

So, King Rehob'oam did not take the counsel of the old "wise" men, which was based on love and service to others. It seemed like foolishness to him and the other young "wise" men, and they advised heavy handedness instead .  .  .

And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, "Thus shall you speak to the people who said to you, "Your father made our yoke heavy, but please lighten it for us"; thus shall you say to them, "My little finger is thicker than my father's loins. And now, whereas my father laid upon you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions."  1 Kings 12:10-11

OK, Rehob'oam, way to go! Keep the testosterone flowing. I don't think anybody's loin size is going to mean anything when you are lying in your grave. And isn't that somewhat the point?  This world and its wisdom is fleeting. What does any of it profit you for its own sake?  Shouldn't we have our minds on the big picture, on eternity, on God's mind?

"For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more." In speaking of a new covenant he treats the first as obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. Heb 8:12-13 (Jer 31:34)

"Ready to vanish away" like you and I and everything, over the "Point of Know Return". Let us keep ourselves sober and awake that we might catch a ride aboard The Good Ship The Wisdom of God.