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M.D., PhD, DD - we see these titles after a name and we think wisdom…I see these titles and I think knowledge…there is a difference.
Knowledge is the beginning of wisdom, but it is no guarantee. I have known some knowledgeable fools and so have you.
Tell me what a man’s intelligence has produced and I will tell whether I think he is wise or not.
Knowledge can, and does, produce arrogance, misused power, pride and selfishness.
Public
offices, at all levels, are filled with politicians who made promises
to the voters to get there, and once in office act only out of
allegiance to the promises they made to themselves.
Knowledge can be very self-centered and quite successful, but not necessarily wise.
The politicians in Jesus’ time were not too wise and got themselves in trouble: Pilate
and Herod and the high Priest Caiaphas unwisely choose jealousy to
motivate their deeds, and the desire for power, and all the other little
children of these less than noble thoughts.
God’s wisdom. That is what I believe in, and preach about, and daily seek. And I think that is what you believe in and daily seek. But we must not just accept these truths…we must seek after them with prayerful might and sacred main.
God’s wisdom that aims us toward humility where we can find harmony.
God’s wisdom that creates in us a desire to think more about helping others than helping ourselves.
God’s wisdom that makes us a more forgiving person.
God’s wisdom that makes us concerned with other people’s preservation before our own self-preservation.
God’s wisdom makes us fight for unity and understanding and kindness
toward our fellowman.
God’s wisdom shouts at us “Don’t continue to be a fool.”
And again, what is wisdom? It is sharpening our souls to the point we make right decisions in coordination with Man’s laws and God’s laws. It is knowing what is right and wrong, and acting like we know what is right and wrong.
Job says, “The fear of God is wisdom.”
Solomon says, “Only the Lord gives wisdom.”
Let me tell you a story.
Albert
Einstein developed the theory of relativity, but brilliant as he was
did not know how to drive a car, so he hired a chauffeur. One day, he was scheduled to lecture at Princeton and as they were on their way, the chauffeur said, “Dr. Einstein, I’ve heard your lecture so many times, I could give it myself.”
Einstein promptly surprised him by saying, “Alright, I’ve never lectured here before. They don’t know me…so let’s do it. You put on my clothes and I’ll put on your uniform and cap. When we get there I will introduce you as Dr. Einstein.”
Everything went perfectly. The chauffeur delivered the speech on relativity flawlessly. And Dr. Einstein, seated at the back of the lecture hall enjoyed it immensely.
But then something happened they had not planned on.
The moderator of the lecture said, “We have fifteen more minutes, just enough time for some of you to ask Dr. Einstein a question.”
A
professor in the audience promptly asked a very complicated, technical
question involving higher mathematical formulas and language that the
chauffeur of course did not understand.
But the chauffeur, though not a scholar, was obviously, a very wise man.
“Sir, the solution to that problem is so simple that I am really surprised you would even ask it. Anyone can answer a question that simple. To prove it, I’m going to have my chauffeur come up and answer it.”
My own head is filled with knowledge. I
read and study and have been busy at it for a lifetime, but the times
when I am faced with problems to which I cannot come up with a answer
are more than many, and so I pray, ”Lord, it’s me again. Give me wisdom. At least aim me in the right direction and cool my emotions if they are getting in the way.”
Billy Graham once said, “Knowledge is horizontal. Wisdom is vertical.”
Yes, true wisdom comes down from above. And when we act with too little wisdom, here comes our heavenly Father again, forgiving us and forgiving us and forgiving us.
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