Yesterday we took a handful of proverbs and sought to observe them. How did that go? Did you see the truth of these sayings? I know I did.
Once upon a time, if you wanted to increase your knowledge, you purchased a set of encyclopedias. All those books, from A to Z that would sit on a shelf and make you feel smarter just looking at them!
Now, you could buy a brand-new set for sometimes thousands of dollars, or you could do what I did and buy a set or two at a yard sale for a dollar. What caused the decrease in value?
The age. The knowledge in those books did not stay current, therefore they lost their value in a very short period of time.
The Bible is a set of 66 books penned by authors inspired by God, and the most recent in the collection is over 2,000 years old. Why do these books stay so relevant as we observed yesterday?
Because the wisdom contained in them is a study of human nature and morality. Things that don't change with age, truth that does not fade.
Today the internet contains the wealth of current human knowledge and it is right there at our fingertips. However, knowledge doesn't make anyone wise. (Just watch the stupid things people post themselves doing on Youtube... just sayin'..)
Wisdom is knowing how to apply knowledge correctly. Wisdom involves choices.
That is one reason the study of God's word enriches our lives. Because time with Jesus, time in the Word gives us a wisdom that goes beyond "knowing a lot of things". It confounds the wise of today and leads us down the path of salvation like a light in a dark place.
It enriches our lives.
"When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus." Acts 4:13
