It is not too hard to
figure out who are the wise and who are the fools in the world. Wisdom is not the same thing as
knowledge. The world is full of very
knowledgeable people who are fools. The
wise are those who have an insatiable appetite for truth. They desire to know what God says. They want to discover God’s ways so they can
follow them. The wise are
spiritually-minded; they have a need to be influenced by God in all of their
living. The wise understand the
limitations of their knowledge and are able to trust God for what they don’t
know. They are constantly exploring
God’s Word to discover greater understanding and more practical ways to apply
what they learn to life.
On the other hand,
fools feed on trash. Trash is knowledge
that is not based on God’s truth. It is
the quest for understanding how life functions apart from God. It is knowledge without understanding how to
get it to work out in daily living.
Trash is the things of
life that prevent God from getting through to the soul. It is the glorification of sin. It is anything that goes contrary to the Word
of God.
The world is full of
foolish people and short in supply of wise people. For the most part, it is the fools who run
the world. Most people do not know God,
care about God, know how to find God, or they even have animosity towards God
as known through the Scriptures. Man has
become foolish in his thinking because God has been left out of the equation. We see all around us the end result of fools
running the world. Let us strive to be a
people after God’s own heart.
Let us strive to be
different than the world of fools. Let
us be as the wise who seek God through His Word. Let us diligently seek understanding of life
as God intended for it to be. Let us
seek after truth and how to live it.
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