'Everyone can be bought', so they say. Certainly our society gives the impression that anything and everything can be purchased. Wealth and accumulation then becomes the norm, the never-satisfied goal of people at all levels of society.
Yet in the Bible the lament of a person who found himself sitting despairingly with next-to-nothing conveys some incredible faith and insight: words that swim against the tide of our relentless consumerism. Job in chapter 28, despite his conditions, despite the woe he keenly feels, still declares a truth that eludes many many others:
There is something that is simply not a commodity. Something that you cannot mine from the ground, extract from the surroundings, search for, refine, or obtain with any natural process. Nor can you buy it, no matter how rich you are or how well connected, or whatever merchants you can trade with - it will remain beyond your reach.
He talks of 'wisdom'. Some deny its existence - generally those who have a one-way ticket to the 'wrong place'! Indeed it is elusive. You can't simply look around or search high and low to find it.
The deal is that only God can lead you to it. Somehow our need for it is inextricably linked with creation itself - but you only find it in the creator, not the created.
Wisdom ... is found in God. End of.
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