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The escalating growth of our technological knowledge in the last century has been nothing short of breathtaking—but has it rendered us wiser? Or godlier? We have lost something priceless, and seem to be trying to replace it with more and more information. We need wisdom! Communications technology leaves us no rest to work things out: mostly we just react, and worry, and fail—and react again. We...

meaning that the heart is to be guarded above all other things put in your charge to watch over. It is to be protected as the supreme, and most valuable, possession of life.31 Why this great value placed upon the heart? The reason is because ‘from it flow the springs of life.’ Literally, the reading is ‘for out of it the issues of life.’ The word translated ‘springs’ is normally used to describe the farthest reaches of a geographical boundary or border (e.g. Josh. 16:3; 17:18).32 The physical idea
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