05/17/23 WISDOM PLUS UNDERSTANDING

05/17/23 WISDOM PLUS UNDERSTANDING

With age comes knowledge. I think that the combination of age and knowledge contributes to incoherent communications. The more you know, the less coherent you can become to others because you personally know that "A" connects to "Z" through a series of other steps (which is also true that "A" connects to "D" or "N"). The more you know, the easier it is to skip from a premise to a conclusion, because it makes sense to you, but if your audience does not know the alphabet of life, they get lost between the premise and the conclusion when the process is not explained.

Though failed communication can be attributed to age and memory, it is also related to the idea of accumulated and abundant knowledge. This is why experts in any given field lose their audience, whether in physics, history, chemistry, mathematics, linguistics or Bible. I often remind myself to, "connect the dots," because other people may have forgotten the dots (as I sometimes do) or they have never heard of the connections. An abundance of knowledge is not always attended by wisdom or informative communication. 

Ecclesiastes 12:9-14 NKJV
9 And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yes, he pondered and sought out and set in order many proverbs.
10 The Preacher sought to find acceptable words; and what was written was upright--words of truth.
11 The words of the wise are like goads, and the words of scholars are like well-driven nails, given by one Shepherd.
12 And further, my son, be admonished by these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is wearisome to the flesh.
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man's all.
14 For God will bring every work into judgment, Including every secret thing, Whether good or evil. 

Romans 2:2-16 NKJV
2 But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.
3 And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?
4 Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
5 But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
6 who "will render to each one according to his deeds":
7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality;
8 but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness--indignation and wrath,
9 tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;
10 but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
11 For there is no partiality with God.
12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law
13 (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified;
14 for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves,
15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them)
16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.