Knowledge

26                 Knowledge          

Knowledge is a powerful thing… Knowledge can be what makes the tool efficient and the thing repaired to run correctly… Knowledge to as a weapon it can define the winner of the battle and even the final victor of the war… Knowledge can be the work of education, diligence in study, and the investment of a good teacher… Yes, knowledge is a powerful thing. If you are sensing a pause or an explanation here, you are correct. Because while knowledge is a powerful thing it’s a very different thing to possess the knowledge needed and yet, not possess the understanding of when to use that knowledge…

Just a few days ago, Hawaii got a notice of a missile heading their way and the words was to take immediate action, and seek shelter… Someone had to type the message, someone had to verify the message and then someone had to push the send button… Maybe it’s not quite like the way I described it, but something similar to that description. The point is that someone was hired and trained for that, particular job… Someone possessed the knowledge of how and actions to take as recourse to evade, evacuate, and endure certain dangers. While they had the knowledge of what to do and how to do it… They knew what to say in the message and too how to relay the message. Someone that was trained and familiar with all the protocols… The person or persons that had the job and had the knowledge, according to what we now know, is there never was a missile. There never was a danger… Kim Jong Un never pushed his send button. However, it wasn’t until after the basements of hotels were filled with people… While moms and dads were running and driving frantically to pick up the kids, the grandparents… All of this to get their loved ones to a safer place. And still others, scared for their lives and now as I type this are now perhaps securing lawyers to sue for pain and suffering and loss of pay and perhaps even loss of mind… Even some I could go as far and say perhaps pursuing the passing of legislation to legalize marijuana use for their pain and suffering.

While the knowledge was there in how and in what to do. It is evident that the knowledge possessed of when to do it was not present.

Knowledge that day did the wrong thing because the failure was the lack of understanding as to when to use the knowledge they possessed.

Knowledge of what one knows and what one thinks they know is very different.

Jesus made a judgement… He separated what HE called the sheep and the goats…

Matt 25:31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats :

33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.    KJV

Jesus describes and uses the analogy of a shepherd dividing these two animals in the gathering of the nations of this world… He used sheep and HE used goats. Neither are described as geniuses… Neither is described as knowing more than the other. The question, what does the sheep have that the goats don’t that win the favor of the shepherd??? It’s rather simple really. The sheep know how to be a sheep and of course it’s the sheep that are known to follow the shepherd.

What are you today??? Do you know the voice of the shepherd??? Let that be your answer…

Thank you for reading…