Proverbs 10:14
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in a world that has inverted the wisdom of this proverb entirely. Our entire digital age is built on the second half of this verse, celebrating the mouth of the fool. We have constructed a global engine for the broadcasting of ruin, and we call it social media. Every unformed thought, every half-baked opinion, every petty grievance, every fleeting emotion is given a megaphone and an audience. We are drowning in the output of the ignorant fool, and because the stream is constant, we have begun to mistake the noise for a conversation and the ruin for progress. The world celebrates the hot take, the viral rant, the public shaming. Because a world in rebellion against God is a world that hates wisdom. Wisdom requires restraint, discipline, and the quiet, diligent accumulation of knowledge. Folly requires only an impulse and a tongue, or these days, a thumb and a smartphone.