Sitting outside at a dinner party the conversation turned toward the challenges faced by modern educators (some present) and medical professionals (also present). My friends are experts working among young people who face heightened feelings of loneliness and depression, along with tremendous pressures in the area of gender and sexuality.

Experts disagree on how to help a young person process and work through gender confusion. However, the ability to hold a meaningful conversation about their disagreements rarely exists. In many situations to push against the prevailing notions of care is to be labeled a hater and face expulsion from your place of work. Despite the pressure, the folks around the table do what they can, when they can, to best serve those under their care.

I thought of this conversation when I read Paul this morning. Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight.

Current wisdom opens the door to every possible sexual expression. Current wisdom pushes you toward doing whatever you want whenever you want. Current wisdom prizes individualism above all virtues. Current wisdom kicks God to the therapeutic and places self at the center of the universe.

Current wisdom is foolishness in God’s sight.

It’s also written the Lord catches the wise in their craftiness. The wisdom of the world, regardless of the shouting, disappoints in the end. Power turns on those who yield it to exclude and harm. Prevailing notions either fade or lead to tragedy.

What remains? The wisdom of God introduced by Jesus Christ and illumined by the Holy Spirit through the words of the Bible. No other source of wisdom stands close.

Hold to the Good Book and keep the faith.

I Corinthians 3 in reading the Bible cover to cover in 2022

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez