"...living well. living in robust sanity." So Euguene Peterson characterizes the wisdom message of The Message. "Wisdom is the biblical term for this on-earth-as-it-is-in-heaven every day living."I had a wonderful conversion experience in Jacksonville Florida thirty five years ago. The change in my life, feeling and thinking was palpable. But it was when I was traveling cross country, crammed in the back of a fifteen passenger dodge van with ten other people and all our luggage reading the Proverbs that I came to know deep in my soul that the ideas in the Bible were the absolute unchanging standard for truth. Reading the King James Version was largely an act of faith in it's self. It was like reading a foreign dialect, but I knew I had found the truth. If the National Bureau of weights and measures had a category for truth right along side the atomic clock I would expect to find Proverbs.
In his introduction to Proverbs Peterson continues: "Wisdom has to do with becoming skillful in honoring our parents and raising our children, handling our money and conducting our sexual lives, going to work and exercising leadership, using words well and treating friends kindly, eating and drinking healthily, cultivating emotions within ourselves and attitudes towards others that make for peace."
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