October 31, 2005

An issue that God has been laying on my heart lately is the difference between knowledge and wisdom.

We are so led to believe by our society that knowledge is the ultimate tool. It will get us the dream job. It will get us the perfect wife, the great friends, the money we need to survive.

I have found that in God's eyes, knowledge is not all it's cracked up to be.

I'm not saying that it's bad to be educated and smart, but wisdom, the experience of life, seems to be so much more important than being able to do advanced calculus in your head. I think that God would rather us be an idiot in the eyes of society and learn of Him and his wisdom than be Magna Cum Laude at Harvard and never hear of the Lord's wisdom.

So much of it is programmed into our brain these days

Go to college and get an education so you succeed in life.

You can't get anywhere without a college degree.

I would drop out of school and run with it in a heartbeat if God told me to do it, that it would show me wisdom. I don't know, it's a bit fuzzy for me, honestly, but I still think in this one, wisdom wins the battle.

I watched two Christians at work today, customers, joke about homosexuality. The lady then said to the man, "But there's enough of that around here already" and proceeded to talk about how the men in her church choir were gay and what an atrocity it was.

Let me get this straight. I am a straight christian male, and I know what is Biblicaly true, but this is not Christ's love talking through these two. I watched as they berated their brothers and their lives, and could only watch. I was literally speechless.

I know I seem like i've been ranting for days, but this issue is heavy on my heart. I think that God loves them as much as any other person on this planet, and though they may sin willingly, we all do. EVERYDAY. It's as if some of us are deciding that we are worthy to cast the first stone on them, when we ourselves deserve those stones coming our way as well.

A friend tonight asked me what there was to believe in when the church was comprised of many hypocrites. This honestly puzzled me, as I had thought about it many times. I think God popped this answer into my head. I told her that the members of the church were humans, that I was a hyporcrite as well, that none of us were perfect, and far from it. Though we all do our sins, and some stick out more than others, they are equal sins. The petty theft is as big as the murder, and vice-versa, in God's eyes. We are not God however, and that is the focus of the church. If we'd realize that again, instead of fighting an internal war and trying to start crusades, I think we might see a revival.

God is the key. Not our acts. Not our clever lines of empowerment. Not our new church buildings and donations to foundations. God is the key to it all.

How far are we willing to believe that God can go? Are we willing to believe that the Creator could even go so far as to defy the all-powerful logic? Is it possible that He who created science and logic could by default, not make sense in it's terms?