day no. 15,974: when you despise the sunrise, you despise the morning

In C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength the curse of Babel falls upon the N.I.C.E. at assembled at Belbury and as Merlin leaves them to it, he says, 

"Qui Verbum Dei contempserunt, eis auferetur etiam verbum hominis."

(They that have despised the word of God, from them shall the word of man also be taken away)

The Word of God is the source of all words. Language holds together in its arche, Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, the Word that was in the beginning with God, and was God. The word of man is downstream from the Word of God. The Word is the sine qua non (without which not).

Those who reject the light, reject that which is seen by the light. When you despise the sunrise, you despise the morning.

Those who worship anything other than God lose what they worship. If you idolize wisdom and significance and sophistication, you will be rendered foolish, insignificant, and muttering nonsense. You can't have what you want if it is not God that you first want.