After a teacher in Asheville, Alabama had finished his English lecture and his class had filed out, a tenth grader stayed behind to confront him.
“I don’t appreciate being singled out,” he told his teacher.
The teacher was confused. “What do you mean?”
“I don’t know what the ‘oxy’ part means, but I know what a ‘moron’ is, and you looked straight at me when you said it.”
Solomon wrote, “That the soul be without knowledge, it is not good”.
Our natural state is to be curious, to learn, to gain knowledge. Consider how quickly we learn to speak our native tongue.
Sure, it’s not good for our soul to be without knowledge. But what knowledge? We are all ignorant about a vast array of subjects. We can’t know everything. How could we? Albert Einstein said, “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.”
The accumulation of data, the expansion of our knowledge base, the multiple degrees we attain are wonderful and prove that we are using the brain that God gave us to grow intellectually.
But Solomon also wrote that “the knowledge of the holy is understanding.”
A teacher in Surprise, Arizona recently asked a student where his homework was. He replied, “It’s still in my pencil.”
Is God’s plan for your life still in your pencil?
Solomon said that our relationship with the Lord is the “beginning of knowledge” and “knowledge is easy unto him that understands.” According to Solomon, know God and you will grow in understanding, then knowledge becomes easy. What you do with that knowledge is up to you.
