“Let whoever is simple turn in here;
To the one who lacks understanding, she says,
Come, eat of my food,
and drink of the wine I have mixed!

We might otherwise assume that setting the table is our job. We might legitimately worry that we need to build a house suitable for wisdom. But this morning we see that it is just the opposite. Wisdom is building her house, preparing her feast, and inviting us!

God is inviting us to come to the house with "seven columns". We come to the Church with the solid columns of the Sacraments. He invites us, "Taste and see the goodness of the Lord."

If this is where wisdom wants to dwell we will never succeed in providing her cheap imitations that satisfy her design criteria. If we don't want to be foolish there is nowhere else to be.

Forsake foolishness that you may live;
advance in the way of understanding.”

We are called to live "not as foolish person but as wise". This wisdom is not something we can produce on our own. We must "try to understand what is the will of the Lord" and "be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs and singing and playing to the Lord" in our hearts. It all comes from him and so we are to be grateful for everything.

The wisdom to which we are called is very different from the wisdom of the ancient philosophers. This is not a wisdom we mine through the efforts of our minds. This is a banquet which is already set before us to which we are invited. The old way says we must prepare a banquet that lures wisdom down to us. This new way assures us that the banquet is already set. Wisdom herself is already in attendance. We must simply keep the feast.

Jesus said to the crowds:
“I am the living bread that came down from heaven;
whoever eats this bread will live forever;
and the bread that I will give
is my flesh for the life of the world.”

What Jesus tells us runs counter to any earthly wisdom we can imagine. But people who subscribe to earthly wisdom eat bread and still die. Whoever believes and eats his bread will live forever.

For my flesh is true food,
and my blood is true drink. 
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood
remains in me and I in him. 
Just as the living Father sent me
and I have life because of the Father,
so also the one who feeds on me
will have life because of me.