{"id":2923,"date":"2012-04-06T08:01:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T15:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2012-04-06T08:01:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T15:01:24","slug":"the-wise-sometimes-despised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2012\/04\/06\/the-wise-sometimes-despised\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wise Sometimes Despised"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"View from Above<\/em>, Click to enlarge.<\/a><\/h6>\n

There’s a picture painted in Ecclesiastes that we never hear preached, but it might be a good day for it now.<\/p>\n

In a small and vulnerable city lived a man who, though wise, was poor and unnoticed. A powerful king came against the city and built a siegeworks to starve them out. They were as good as dead. Then the previously unknown man offered something that (though it’s not told how) changed everything.*<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

That’s my summary. The \u00a0original writer wraps it up with:\u00a0\u201cWisdom is better than strength.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

He also makes another point: “After it was all done, the poor man was forgotten and his wisdom was no longer heeded.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s one of the ironies of life.<\/p>\n

Irony: When things go in an opposite way than expected.<\/strong> Life has so much of it, I sometimes wonder if it’s more the rule than the exception. (If that were possible.)<\/p>\n

How often it is that no credit is given to the one it is due.<\/p>\n

Or sometimes it’s worse: Rather than credit there’s blame. You’ve heard it said: \u201cNo good deed will go unpunished.\u201d It’s another irony, and we’ve seen it happen.<\/p>\n

It happened at the central moment of history!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Too often the wise are despised. It’s the popular who are popular. Wisdom is handy in a pinch. But until then, and after then, \u201cLet’s party.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sounds sort of depressing if it wasn’t so familiar.<\/p>\n

It’s right there in Ecclesiastes: We tend to forget the One\u00a0to whom we owe our lives . . . the One that, though poor, was wise, and provided a solution to save us.<\/p>\n

Let’s remember.<\/p>\n

Happy Easter.<\/p>\n

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\n*Ecc. 9:13-18<\/p>\n

Feel free to share with others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a remote story of a forgotten man of wisdom that has more than usual pertinence today and this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2952,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/2952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}