My English friends want a translation of my latest blog blurb, so here goes.
First I must tell you that the Danish term for a person who knows something about our national economy is "a wiseman".
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The season for wise men is over
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I had to smile today when, in a national paper, I read an article about the Danish economy. The article presented its female author as "a former wiseman." I know that you can quit being a secretary (I've taken breaks from that at times), you can retire from the teaching profession, etc. I've just never thought of the word "wiseman" as a position, but rather as an acknowledgment that a person had an insight. I have thought of the term as showing respect for someone's proven and applied knowledge. But this lady, who actually said something very sensible in the article, was described as a "former wiseman."

That got my vivid imagination going. I wonder what happened to her wisdom? Where had it gone? Had she done one stupid thing, said something not so wise and then it was just "game over" for her, then she was no longer considered wise? Or maybe it was just because someone discovered that she was not a wise man but a wise woman, and then she was thrown out?

We have just gone through a season of wise men, I have just stuffed my three specimens back in the Christmas box and relocated them to the basement. The season of wise men is over for now.

However, real wisdom should not be stuffed away, it should be a lasting thing. Although 2000 years have passed since three famous wise men abandoned everything and saddled their camels to follow a star and seek something that was bigger than themselves, it's still the same quest that creates wisdom. Like I wrote on my livingroom window with snowspray one Christmas: "Wise men still seek Him".

It is not enough to follow a star once in your life, it is not enough to bow down once and say "Wow, Jesus, you are the one who could fill my empty space inside." Again and again we must seek wisdom, lest we also end up as "former wisemen".

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom", it says in Proverbs 9:10. There are actually many wise words about wisdom in Proverbs! And the little typing error - if that was what it was - in our national paper reminded me that I must never become a "has-been" in my quest for Jesus. I do not want to end up as someone who saw a star once and said wow and then just went back to business as usual. All the time I must pursue Him, constantly I must seek His heart, again and again I must bow down.

Throughout our lives there are times when we just have to put the closed sign on our store window, saddle our camels, abandon what we have known, and pursue Him.