Chapter 14 – Wisdom grows Peace

Learning from a Songwriter

Mary Elizabeth Byrne, M.A. (July 2, 1880 – January 19, 1931) was born in Ireland. She translated the Old Irish Hymn, “Bí Thusa ‘mo Shúile,” into English as “Be Thou My Vision” in Ériu (the journal of the School of Irish Learning), in 1905. Title Be thou My Vision, translated in 1905. Mary Burne wrote in the second verse — Be Thou my Wisdom, be Thou my true Word; be Thou ever with me and I with Thee, Lord; be Thou my great Father, and I Thy true son, be Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one. God’s wisdom and truth center on Jesus, he is the source of truth.  Not that he speaks truth (he does) but that his essence is truth, his being is true, his thought is true, he is the benchmark of truth.  In this truth we find wisdom.  We find wisdom in his words.  In this chapter, the letter to David explores God’s wisdom and how we benefit from studying his wisdom.

Proverbs 24:10-12 says — If you falter in a time of trouble, how small is your strength! Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done? [NIV]