Let the simple come

Sunday August 20th, Proverbs 9: Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn out its seven pillars. She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table. She has sent out her maids, and she calls from the highest point of the city. "Let all who are simple come in here!" Wisdom was highly regarded at the time of Solomon and in some cases was considered the calling of what would now be known as the Holy Spirit. Here the calling is for all who are simple to come into the place prepared. All who are simple seems like an odd definition. But think of those who are not simple, those who weave complex plots to get ahead, to out due the other person, to take advantage, in other words, the movers and the shakers in society, they are the excluded ones. In Matthew 5 and Luke 6, Jesus said it something like this; blessed are the meek, blessed are the poor, blessed are the persecuted, blessed are those who hunger and thrust. Perhaps we should have these words above church doors, as well as congressional doors, let all who are simple come in here.