Ecclesiastes 8:1-17 We’re going to be in Ecclesiastes , one of my favorite books of the bible, and one of the Wisdom books today, written by King Solomon, renowned as the wisest person to ever have lived, given the gift of wisdom by God. So, open up to Ecclesiastes chapter 8 with me. Intro : Albert Einstein said, “Information is not wisdom. The only source of wisdom is experience.” There is a lot of talk these days about Artificial Intelligence and the Information Age… The Singularity where the AI becomes sentient or is suddenly a thousand or a million times more intelligent than all humans put together. But, information or intelligence which is a quickness with information does not equal wisdom. There is no such thing as Artificial Wisdom! There is a vast amount of information in our world and it’s increasing exponentially but that is not making us increase in wisdom… Social Media and the 24 hour news cycle can give you information, much of which is wrong information…...
Drawn: Intimacy with God Intimacy is what we call the experience of really knowing and being known by another person. We frequently use spatial language when describing this experience like closeness or nearness . An intimate friend is someone we feel very close to; they know us at a deep level. If something happens that damages the intimacy with our friend, they feel distant from us. Or a person who doesn’t know us intimately knows us at a surface level. But of course intimacy is not spatial but relational. We all know what it’s like to be sitting right next to a person and be physically near but we feel distant and we can feel close to a person who is four thousand miles away . What makes us feel intimate with another person? While there are many ingredients to intimacy and each close relationship we have has a different recipe, common to all of them is trust . We cannot be close with a person we don’t trust. Trust is at the heart of intimacy. The more we trust s...