Recntly I've come a place where I've been able to see the difference between wisdom and knowledge in so many areas of my life. I have realized that a person can have a lot of knowledge, yet no wisdom. I have also realized a person doesn't need to have a lot of knowledge to have a lot of wisdom. The title a person holds only tells me how much of an education they have or how long they've been in their current field of employment. The fruit of a person's life tells me much about their wisdom. Recently, I had an opportunity to spend time with several young people and one child stood out the most because he was the oldest yet acted the least mature and exhibited to know more than most of the children, yet the fruit he produced was rotten because he was the most disruptive and disrespectful to the adults around him. Another child began to become influence by this young man and I was able to speak wisdom (in my older age) to tell the second young man how much of a leader he was and that the older boy was trying to impress him and to walk in his anointing of leadership and not become a follower of the person impressing him. The younger boy listened to the wisdom and made a decision to act as a leader. The demeanor of the older boy changed to a less disruptive manner, once he saw he was not getting the attention he desired. The fruit produced in the younger boy was an example to the other children around him on how to behave. He also receive respect for the adults who noticed the difference in the two. Bad fruit came from the one with the most knowledge, but good fruit came from the one who chose to recognize the good wisdom given to him and walk in it.
My life own life is similar. I used to believe in order to have respect and be a leader, I needed to earn a degree to show how smart I was or have some title follow my name. The Lord has shown me the exact opposite. The world often equates having a lot of knowledge or a big title to being wise. My life scripture is 1 Corinthians 1:27-31. The world used me up and threw me away when it was finished and thought I had nothing more to offer. I was a high school drop out, teenage mother, former prostitute. The Lord reach into the trash the world threw me in, cleaned me off, and told me who I was in him. I am a daughter of the most high king, a gift to my husband, cleaned and made righteous through the shed blood of his only son Jesus, whom he allow to hang on a cross so I could find my way back home to my father in heaven, the king and creator of the universe. People I come across with big titles are confounded by the wisdom I have been given only by the Lord, but given freely, as James 1:5 says. The Lord has given me the favor and respect that I thought only a title attained from knowledge or fame and fortune would bring. I have come to appreciate that knowledge is beneficial for understanding this world, but when choosing between wisdom and knowledge, I will seek after wisdom vs knowledge.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
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