Verse of the Day - Proverbs 19:20

Listen to counsel and receive instruction so that you may be wise in later life.
~ Proverbs 19:20 (Holman)

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I was told once, years ago, that I was smart . . . but that I didn't have common sense. Ouch.

But it's so true that we can have a head full of knowledge, but be a knucklehead in life . . .

~ What good does it do to have a degree in Financial Administration, with the knowledge of how to manage multi-million dollar budgets, if one can't be disciplined to keep tabs on their own checkbook without bouncing checks?

~ What good does it do to know all there is to know about horticulture with all the botanical names stored in your brain, if you plant a pine tree too close to your house and it grows up (duh) and cracks your foundation?

~ What good does it do to go to a culinary school and become a master chef, if time and again you have to toss your moldy fresh food from the frig into the trash because you don't take the time to actually prepare it?

They say that knowledge is power. That may be. But knowledge without wisdom is abstract and somewhat pointless. The application of knowledge is wisdom, and wisdom is where real power is. Power to stay balanced in a world of shifting sand. Power to withstand the pressure to fall for the devil's schemes. Power to be all that God has called us to be -- living a godly life in contrast to a life without God.

Common sense and God sense -- they don't just happen naturally. It takes humbly listening to sound and godly advice and applying ourselves to that knowledge and truth. And you may not have a plaque on the wall declaring the extent of your knowledge, but if you have learned wisdom, you are degreed where it counts most.

Peace be unto you as you pursue wisdom through applied knowledge.

Love,
Joelene