The Wisdom House

March 27, 2009

Today's Reading: Deuteronomy 19-20 and Proverbs 24

Proverbs says that “by wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established, and it is through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures”.

In other words, if we could somehow materialize our wisdom, coupled with our knowledge, than it would become a house.

I believe that Jesus makes a similar comparison when He talks about how “In His Father’s House there are many rooms”. This has spawned many to believe that heaven will be a place where everyone has a house, some people translate this as “mansions”.

I suppose this is the American Dream projected into Christianity once more. The idea that we can have something material in heaven has a lot of appeal in a society that recognizes “the house, the kids, and the dog” as part of a life everyone should have.

It’s sort of the appeal of a lot of online programs. I’ve been noticing that a lot of them require this sort of personalization that include a picture and a template. Gone are the days when you can just visit a site and use its resources anymore. No, you have to have a username and password, and then set up some nice environment for yourself.

Sort of like this one program known as “Pet Society” on Facebook. The program is all about becoming an anthropomorphic character and making a house of your own, with furniture that you buy with coins that you obtain by doing nice things for other Pet Society members.

In other words, nice works help make your house. Some houses on Pet Society have six rooms that are brimming from the floor to the ceiling with stuff. My six-year-old daughter absolutely loves this program and will spend hours on it.

Someone needs to design a wisdom house software, so the more you know, the bigger your house is. Actually, that sounds like some idea for some kids software. I’m seriously wondering why I wrote that, because it’s kind of cheesy now that I think of it.

Still, can you imagine what would happen if getting wisdom and knowledge really got us a nice house? I’m not talking about the smarts that will win you big money on Jeopardy, but the Solomon kind.

I’m wondering if my wisdom and knowledge translated into a house, I would hope that I would not be in the house that I am in now. (It’s small, by the way.) I would hope that my wisdom house would be on Beverly Hills.