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Today's Devotional - August 5
Wisdom U
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:7
Recommended Reading
Proverbs 1:1-7
Recently CBS News ran an interesting article on the problems of getting a Ph.D. According to the report, there are a dozen downsides to getting that coveted degree. For example, you might end up on food stamps. In the three years covered by the report, the number of Ph.Ds. who filed for food stamps more than tripled. It may also be hard to find a job. Between 2005 and 2009, America produced more than 100,000 doctoral degrees, but only 16,000 new professorships were created.
If you're working on your education, keep at it! We don't want to discourage you. We need more and more Christians with higher and higher degrees, and we certainly need more Christian thinkers speaking into our culture. But the most important degree is from God's University of Wisdom.
Solomon understood the difference between intellect and wisdom. Our scholastic knowledge is of little value compared to the wisdom we attain when we study God's textbook, the Bible. We can't all earn a doctorate, but we can all enroll in Wisdom U.
Applying God's standards to life's choices is called wisdom; applying the world's standards is called folly.
Woodrow Kroll, in Proverbs: The Pursuit of God's Wisdom
Read-thru-the-Bible
Jeremiah 6-8
