KNOWLEDGE AIN'T WISDOM

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If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God [Who gives] to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given him.
James 1:5 AMP

This nation is filled to the brim with knowledge-filled heads. We send our children to school for 12 or 13 years, and then pay big money to send them on to colleges and universities where they are pumped full of 'facts', figures and information.

Unfortunately, we often place these colleges and universities on pedestals and confuse the facts, figures and opinions they espouse with wisdom -- the ability to use knowledge to make good decisions. A university degree without wisdom to back it often proves to be as worthless as a degree from the wizard.

 How many degree-holding individuals knew fake classes and bogus degrees were common practice at UNC? How many knew, but turned a blind eye because it allowed the university to rake in money in sports revenues? How many athletes passed through the doors, a piece of paper in hand with no education to back it up? The number of finger-pointing, highly educated folks involved in this scandal only emphasize the fact that all the knowledge in the world falls flat without wisdom.

 Unfortunately, in our nation's successful effort to remove any semblance of God from our institutes of learning, we have unwisely chosen to kick the most wisdom filled book on earth to the curb. It is tragic all the more, because the wisdom contained in its pages is not often denied even by those who deny the power of its Word and its Authorship.

The Bible is an instruction book for this life, chockfull of priceless examples of the cost of even a momentary lack of wisdom. With all the books written over thousands upon thousands of years, is there any other book so controversial that merely quoting from it in a high school classroom is cause for a lawsuit? Perhaps such controversy is in itself evidence of its Authorship. 

 Self-help books fly off the shelves that essentially do nothing but mimick the truths taken from the pages of Scripture, and expand on them.  We humans are good at confusing quantity of words with quality of words. Yet, Ecclesiastes tells us the "The more words the less meaning, and how does that profit anyone?" (6:11) Sometimes it only takes a proverb to speak volumes.

 Speaking of Proverbs, that book taken alone, studied, absorbed and followed would save society billions spent on books, therapy, 'life coaches' and even prisons. 

 Because the fact is God is good. He wants good for us. "Ask, and it will be given. Follow the instructions I have given you," He says. Really quite simple, but we excel at making it so very difficult.

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