God's word for today: "Happy is the person who meditates on wisdom and reasons intelligently"

The Book of Ecclesiasticus, also known as The Book of Sirach, teaches to us a beautiful beatitude: "Happy is the person who meditates on wisdom and reasons intelligently, who reflects in his heart on her ways and ponders her secrets.", Sirach 14:20-21.

This beatitude bears resemblance to a beatitude from the gospels: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God", Matthew 5:9. In the bible the children of God are those people who worship wisdom; peace and happiness are a prize, a result of devotion to wisdom. Beatitude in Sirach's book begins with the word "Happy".
Aristotle explains to us: "Happiness is the reward of virtue"; then Thomas Aquinas concludes: "If happiness is the reward of virtue, it follows that to a greater virtue corresponds a greater degree of happiness". And being wisdom a perfect virtue, that is to say a virtue that cannot be surpassed or improved in its kind, we can affirm that the most perfect happiness corresponds to wisdom. And more, in the wise the happiest man.
Peace also corresponds to wisdom: "She will exalt him above his neighbors, and will open his mouth in the midst of the assembly. He will find gladness and a crown of rejoicing, and will inherit an everlasting name.", Sirach 15:5-8.
Only to the spiritual gifts correspond to bear fruits, because the gifts are progressive, the gifts are the way, every perfect virtue such as wisdom is a gift because the gifts are perfections, qualities of God: "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect", Matthew 5:48.
Wisdom as science is the knowledge of the correct means to live and as a spiritual gift it is the love for the virtue (the philosophy). The bible always reminds us in one way or another that the life of man as such without wisdom is not life.
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