Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 256 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Proverbs 9:13-18 - Folly Calls for a Hearing
Thank you for joining us for our 7 days a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 256 of our Trek, and this will be our last day in camp for a while as we search for the nuggets of wisdom found in the book of Proverbs Chapter 9:13-18.  Yesterday we explored Chapter 9:7-12 where King Solomon presented the closing arguments for the woman Wisdom in her court hearing before the city gates.  Since each day’s Trek builds on the previous ones, if you miss any of our Wisdom-Trek episodes, please go to Wisdom-Trek.com to listen to them and read the daily journal.

We are recording our podcast from our studio at ‘Home2’ in Charlotte, NC.   Our travels on Thursday of this week will take us to Atlanta where we will drop Paula’s mom off at her sister’s place and then we will fly onto Pheonix to spend four days working with our construction project in Mesa.   It is in very capable hands with our friends and partners Charles and Alison Mecom, but it is good to get close to the project every few months.  We will be back in Charlotte for part of the next week before heading back to The Big House in Marietta on the 19th.   It is an exciting season of life, but challenging and tiring at times.  I don’t think we will suffer from boredom anytime soon.

For today, we will spend one final day at camp around the campfire making some smores and listening to the final portion of the third of three great poems written by King Solomon.  We will need to be transported back in time for one more day as we complete our exploration of Proverbs Chapter 9.  Let us imagine ourselves once again outside the city gates of Jerusalem. Today we have the opposing council who is calling for a hearing.  It is the lawyer Folly.  She will present a short testimony called:
Folly Calls for a Hearing
We find out that Folly has a house in the city walls and she is shouting her testimony from there attempting to capture the simple and foolish people coming into the city.  I will read Proverbs Chapter 9:13-18

13 The woman named Folly is brash.
She is ignorant and doesn’t know it.
14 She sits in her doorway
on the heights overlooking the city.
15 She calls out to men going by
who are minding their own business.
16 “Come in with me,” she urges the simple.
To those who lack good judgment, she says,
17 “Stolen water is refreshing;
food eaten in secret tastes the best!”
18 But little do they know that the dead are there.
Her guests are in the depths of the grave.

In verse 13 we see the opposing counsel is a lawyer called Folly.  She is a crude brash person, unlike Wisdom, who was well mannered and peaceful.  As with many arrogant people, she was also ignorant but was oblivious to this fact.

As we move onto verse 14, we remember that the woman called Wisdom prepared a fine meal for her guests. Wisdom even built a splendid house for them with the 7 columns that represented wisdom’s attributes.

But the lawyer Folly is lazy. Folly did none of these things. She does not even stand to invite her guests. We find her sitting in her doorway which was built high on the wall of the city.   Calling from the high places was common, but sitting while making the proclamation showed disrespect.

The messages of the two lawyers both come from the highest place in the city. So everyone will hear both messages. Nobody will miss them. Everyone will receive both invitations. We cannot accept both invitations. We must choose.