Day 3: Share Your Pearls of Wisdom

October 10, 2014
What is page for page the book with the most wisdom you’ve ever read? Share your wisdom from the book with us.

Gutenberg Bible

“…for gaining wisdom and instruction; for understanding words of insight…” (Proverb 1:2 NIV)

While it’s hard to ignore the wisdom behind “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Harper Lee) or “early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise” (Benjamin Franklin), I have to say without any hesitation that page for page the book with the most wisdom that I’ve read is the Bible. With examples like “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ” (Ephesians 5:21 NIV – loosely translated “put others first”) and “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind . . . and . . . ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’”(Matthew 22:37-39 NIV) to examples about putting relationships ahead of rules (Luke 6:1-11), the Bible is full of wisdom. Unfortunately, too many people get hung up on the “thou shalt not” statements and “throw the baby out with the bath water.” And, yes, I freely admit that many of the people who disregard the wisdom of the Bible call themselves Christians; however, their disregard for the teachings of Jesus does not negate the wisdom that is found in this book. It is full of the principles upon which many other wise statements have been founded.

While I knew what my answer would be immediately, I struggled with actually sharing it because I know when people hear God, Jesus, or the Bible mentioned, they instantly feel like someone is going to start preaching to them, and I didn’t want my audience to tune me out. But every book that I thought of has principles which lead back to the Bible, and those books, regardless how much wisdom they contain, do not pack as much wisdom into every page as the Bible does. So I had to post my initial thought because it was the true answer for me.