Ship 30 for 30
Wanted: King, for a Renaissance. Must be curious and like fun
If you want some brain fun, start wrestling with Solomon’s Proverbs. It’s got a lifetime of stuff to wrestle with.
In Proverbs chapter 25, King Solomon takes a sharp left turn to Albuquerque. (He does that.)
He suddenly starts focusing on kings.
“It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.”
Huh? Whaaaaaa ….?
This perplexed me for years.
C’mon, Sol. I get why you’re interested, but the rest of us?
Solomon would have known the vast, vast, VAST majority of his readers would NEVER be kings.
So what’s the point, then?
About the same time as I was wrestling, I took my then-small kids to a corn field near our home in Gloucestershire, England. The farmer had carved a maze into his cornfield, with a two-story wooden platform at the centre. From the top of the platform, could see all the kids learning and giggling their way through the maze.
AHA.
Of course you’ll never have the job, Dave. But whether you think and behave like a king is entirely up to you.
I’ve built you this great cosmic lifelong maze. Now let’s have some fun! I’ve concealed the matter; YOU search it out. I’ll watch from here.
All he needs is some kids willing to play.
There’s a new Renaissance coming. Want in?
