Proverbs 11:13
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in a culture that is drowning in words. The internet, our phones, the twenty-four hour news cycle, it is all a constant, torrential flood of information, opinion, speculation, and accusation. And in this economy, the currency that is most valued is the secret, the inside scoop, the confidential report. To know something that others do not is to have a form of power, and to share it is to feel, for a moment, like a king. But this is a fool's kingdom, built on sand and fueled by sin. It is not a collection of abstract platitudes for pious needlepoint. It is divine wisdom for the street, for the marketplace, for the dinner table, and for the church potluck. And here, in this sharp, antithetical proverb, Solomon puts his finger on one of the central arteries of all human community: the management of information.