Wednesday 24 November 2010

Whose invitation do you accept?

in Proverbs 9 there are two identical invitations to supper, both Lady Wisdom and Lady Folly say, "Let all who are simple come to my house!"
At Lady Wisdom's house you'll find a carefully prepared banquet, knowledge of God and life. But at Lady Folly's house you'll find bodies under the floorboards and buried in the garden ("...little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead" v18).
Both Wisdom and Folly call from "the highest point of the city", and the suggestion is that this indicates that Wisdom speaks for the Lord God and Folly speaks for the idol gods.
And the question is, whose invitation do you accept? Yes, as a fundamental basis for life, but also day by day, moment by moment. Whose voice do you listen to when you decide what to read, what radio programmes to listen to or what you watch on TV? And whatever you listen to from the media, whose voice is speaking, Wisdom or Folly?
John Piper has some interesting observations on this: http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/do-you-glorify-god-in-your-movie-watching

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