Proverbs 1 - Targeted Marketing

1:4-5 - To give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.  4 - And wise man shall hear and increase in learning, and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels,  - the Geneva Bible, 1560 Edition

The rebelliousness of my teenage years was often driven by the certainty that I was are right and that my parents were out of touch and didn’t understand today’s world.  Their lessons no longer applied to the "new" reality.

Reading these two verses, I realize the more things change, the more they stay the same.

I wonder if God views us as His teenagers - simple,  gullible, prideful, and arrogant in our knowledge of what just isn’t true.

The problem is getting us to listen, because He created beings who, in our pride and arrogance, don’t like being preached at or lectured to.

So, He leads off in His book of Wisdom about how the wise among us will increase learning and the men of understanding attain wise counsel.

Who wouldn’t want to use this information to help our “simple” brothers and sisters, and our “young men?”

And, if He sneaks in a little insight into us “wise” guys, so much the better.