Your Moment at the Well
The Lord’s insight. To despise knowledge and wisdom and truth is to grow up into foolishness.
Proverbs 1:7: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:20-22: Wisdom calls aloud outside; She raises her voice in the open squares. How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge.”
I have done several messages on wisdom and on the idea of how foolishness steals the lives the Lord wants us to live. You also know that I believe social media is one of the primary reasons we have become less wise and more foolish today.
It is important for believers to learn to live our lives and to base all that we do and say and believe more on facts than on the thoughts and opinions and feelings that we hear each day. We have a world today where many people believe that the facts we have about many things are not as important as the opinions we hold about those facts.
Many people believe what was true yesterday is now something that stands in the way of greater enlightenment. Understand what I am saying and test it against something greater – the Word of God. Never test what is true against what you want to be truth.
Having baseless opinions shaped by how we want to feel is how we become foolish and scornful. Facts are more important than opinions. The opinions that matter most are the views that will point you back to the facts that make you wiser and more intelligent.
Proverbs 1:20 warns us that scorners find joy and happiness in scorning the views and positions of others. Scornful people are typically those who profess “The Truth” is not their truth. They reject knowledge and understanding for their own feelings and opinions.
We are naturally going to be driven away from real knowledge when we are drawn to foolishness. Scornful people will sow the seeds of foolishness right into our hearts when we do not guard ourselves against any view or opinion that attacks the Truth.
For the believer, wisdom and knowledge is always crying out to us. So, be on the watch for the scornful views and opinions of others. Those who are scornful live in the middle of their emotions and never the facts. They want to advance how they feel, and they want you to feel ashamed about how you feel.
They care more about how they feel than about the Word of God. Don’t you be this way. Scornful people will not speak about the facts. In fact, they cannot speak about the facts because they typically do not know the facts. Instead, they will attack you and your views simply because yours’ may be different from theirs.
They will ridicule you and they will hate you for believing in the Truth, believing they are standing for what is right and best. They believe they are right and that they hold the view the world must hold. When you hold a view that is different from theirs, they believe your view must be ridiculed and scorned to death.
The scornful are actually the very thing they say and hold others to be. They will say others are intolerant; but they are intolerant of beliefs of others. They will make the loving and the caring people feel and seem like they are unloving and uncaring. But in reality, the scornful are unloving and uncaring.
Today we have allowed scornful people to rise to the highest positions in our government, in our schools, in our church, in our judicial system, and in almost every walk of life. They have legitimized the illegitimate and the foolish among us simply follow along with them.
With their position and authority and status they have worked very hard to bring scorn and ridicule to those of us who simply want to live in Truth and in Love toward everyone. Be mindful of who you listen to today. A strong opinion is never more right than the knowledge, wisdom and the Truth we have in the Word of God.
Seek knowledge and wisdom and avoid the loud noise of those who shout how bad others are because you may be hearing the scorn from someone who is actually worse than those they speak of.
Fear the Lord. Trust in Him. Seek His knowledge and His understanding. He will lead you with knowledge and wisdom that is the only thing that can stand the scorn of the foolish when it is directed at you.
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