Beauty can also make us wise by helping us slow down and moving us to worship God.
Books make us wise by helping us think more deeply, and prudently about God’s Word. Nature, similarly, makes us wise by reminding us of who we are and who God is. The local church makes us wise by bringing our focus back to God.
The Bible makes us wise by revealing God to us. That’s where we need to go first, and daily. If God is the source of all truth, the Bible must be our most important source of wisdom. Brett is spot on here and I could relate to how often social media takes up much of my time. Social media, which is fickle, often occupies our foundation instead of Scripture, which is enduring. From the bottom up, it also goes from most directly mediated by God (his spoken word to us in Scripture) to least directly mediated by God (machine directed social media algorithms).” Our problem is that we often reverse the order. Again, listen to Brett: “ From the bottom up, it goes from most enduring (the eternal Word) to most fleeting (the here and gone social media post). The order or priority of the Pyramid is important, the bottom sections having more priority than the top ones.
The Wisdom Pyramid has six levels and in this order: 1) The Bible, 2) The Church, 3) Nature, 4) Books, 5) Beauty and 6) Internet/Social Media. Since our media intake is making us sick, Brett suggests that we need healthier habits of knowledge intake. But it can also be toxic, making us unwise and more susceptible to the lies and snares of our age.” This is a caution we must desperately heed, or we’ll continue to live like fools. It can be nutritious, making us wise and shrewd, more able to ward off intellectual infections and spiritual afflictions. He cautions us, “ We must examine our diet of knowledge intake- the “food” we consume daily. Regarding our media diet, Brett suggests that we eat too much, we eat too fast and we eat only what tastes good to us. We’re losing the capacity to discern, Brett suggests, because of our diet – what we consume or feed our souls daily! Here are some key highlights of the book.īrett shows us three sources of our sickness and seven sources of wisdom which make up the “Wisdom Pyramid”. Wisdom is the application of what we know, to discern what is right and wrong. Why is it that we are the most informed generation, but not necessarily the wisest? Brett McCracken, senior editor at Gospel Coalition, tells us that wisdom doesn’t equal knowledge or information.
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