A couple verses to ponder about knowledge

I was studying some suggested readings tonight and a few verses leaped of the page at me.


proverbs 3
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;

6 in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight. [a]

7 Do not be wise in your own eyes;
fear the LORD

proverbs 7
6 Do not forsake wisdom, and she(wisdom) will protect you;
love her, and she will watch over you.

7 Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom.
Though it cost all you have, [a] get understanding.

Hosea 4
6 My people perish for lack of knowledge
Because you have rejected knowledge,

lets see if we can unpack some of that


in the passage from proverbs 3 we got 3 things going on, in verse five we have a commandment; to TRUST God with every thing we can muster and don’t think or believe that we know whats right. We don't know what God wants from us or out of our lives by our own accord. We cant say why the world works the way it does or who God is, what his attributes are, or even his stance on the issues we face based on our own inclinations or conclusions from what we see because we are not God. With out Him telling us we cant possibly claim to know so we have to trust Him when He tells us these things for Him self, in His word. Our own understanding is inherently imperfect because we are imperfect there for any concept or notion that we try to come up with about God or how we relate to him that is based on our own understanding is bound to be flawed and incorrect in some if not all aspects. At this point only God understands God fully so if we want to know more about him or the way things really work then we need to trust Him and not our selves


then in verse 6 we get a promise; when we recognize God in everything we do then He will take care of everything for us - Thats it basically, echoed and re-affirmed by Jesus in Luke 12:31 this basicaly means if you stay commited to Christ and allow Him to be supreme over every aspect of your life then He will take care of you and make you life "easier" -some times easier means deliverance from pain and sometimes it means a coping mechanism to see you through it.

in verse 7 it is restated that we should not try to consider ourselves wise but to fear God implying that obedience and recognition of the fact that God is the one who is truly wise/knowledgeable and we know nothing in comparison. Some times its easy to get caught up in an intellectual high. Especially if you are one who likes to pursue knowledge and then start getting a big head like you really know something but the truth is we don’t really know anything we just believe we do. And if all our knowledge is based on belief who do you want to believe in? An imperfect person like ourselves who really doesn't know anything or and all knowing and all seeing God?



Hosea 4
6 My people perish for lack of knowledge because you have rejected knowledge, This verse is saying people around the world who God desires to have a true and honest relationship with don’t get one because they don't know the truth about God because people don't teach them. These may be "good" people who live example moral lives by the worlds standards yet they still perish because other people who have heard the truth of Jesus Christ rejected it and did not teach it. Good people die, and suffer because we reject God and do not share his truths with others so we must try to provide them at least with the chance to know. We can not and should not try to force it on them as it says in Matthew 10:14. If they do not want to accept what you tell them, love them but leave them in to their own ways. If God has ordained it to be then in due time it will but we are obligated to share the whole Gospel of Christ. The easy and the hard to swallow.


this is just an exercise im gonna start doing to help myself study the word of God and try to absorb it so you should start seeing these at least every other day. If you don't, ask me if I've been reading my word to try to get me motivated again.


peace