Knowledge can be a wonderful thing! You would expect to hear this from a teacher. You might not expect to hear that knowledge can also be a dangerous thing, or that there is something better than knowledge.
Of course knowledge can be a good thing and we need it in order to operate from day to day. Sometimes knowledge simply creates a better criminal. At other times knowledge makes a humble Christian into a puffed up unusable servant. There is something that must accompany our knowledge in order for it to be a benefit. You realize that there are many well-educated people who have been greatly and are being greatly used by God. At the same time, there are others who have not had educational opportunities, but these are still being greatly used by God. The knowledge levels can vary, but the charity level cannot.
Knowledge can make us proud, but charity builds us up. Let's focus a little more on building people up. Let's take some time to send a card or letter, make a phone call, mail a check to a missionary or preacher in need, or spend time helping a needy child. May the character of God's love fill and flow through our lives. Our homes sure need this atmosphere. Churches are cold, dead, and dry because there is selfishness instead of true Bible love abounding. We are at a low level of real agape love.
"Charity suffereth long and is kind, charity envieth not. . .." Read those familiar verses from 1 Corinthians 13 again. Ask God to enable you to be a builder again, to touch others' lives with God's love.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16
Have a blessed week!
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