What is the difference between knowledge and wisdom?
Read Matthew 7:24-27 and journal your thoughts
Did you catch it? For so many of us in our culture we seem to equate knowledge with wisdom. It’s not our fault; our culture is heavily influenced by the enlightenment period which put a heavy emphasis on knowing. As long as you knew the right thing then that’s all you really needed. This line of thinking heavily influenced the way we do all kinds of things in our culture including our education system and the way we do church.
Knowledge does not equate wisdom, but knowledge is a part of wisdom, but it is also so much more. According to today’s verse, Jesus equates the person who “hears his words” (translation: knows all the right answers) but does not put them into practice is like the person who builds their house on sand. You see, it is not enough for us to just know all the right answers; we actually have to live out the right answers.
Read 1 John 2:6 and journal your thoughts
We are called to live lives just like Jesus did. This is the difference between knowledge and wisdom; it is the difference between knowing the right answers and doing them. Or to put it another way the difference between knowledge and wisdom is this. Knowledge is the understanding that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is the understanding that you don't put tomatoes in a fruit salad.
Today pray that God would help you to not only know the right answers but to live them out.
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