Psalm 139:6-8
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.
Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
We repent for the misuse of knowledge.
(What I learned today)
Knowledge can be used to deceive. It can be used to harm people around us, personally and in the community of the body of Yeshua.
Knowledge can be used in perverse ways, resulting in hurt. It can be used to control people. It can be used to embarrass or demean.
In its prideful form, knowledge can be used to impress others, such as in flaunting of college or university degrees.
Lording over others with a "know-it-all" attitude, and diminishing their character by making them look uneducated and ignorant, is a sin. On the other hand, knowledge can be used as a blessing to others.
(How I consider things)
Boasting in knowledge can actually backfire on the self-serving individual.
YHWH is no respecter of persons, and His eyes search the servant who has a pure heart and faithful spirit. His eyes are always searching out the poor in spirit, poor in body, and the obedient. Yeshua is the judge over all of the universe. He alone has the authority to judge the heart, motives, intentions and condition of an earth-bound soul. A piece of paper lauding a person's accomplishments means no more to Him than a widow placing her last penny into the offering plate. On the contrary, He sees her service to Him and mankind with more kingdom value.
Knowledge can be used to build a person up, rather than to humiliate them. It can be used to help or assist a person in need, medically, financially, spiritually and mentally, among other things.
Knowledge can help us to reckon truth vs lies, when guided by Spirit of Truth.
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I enjoy fixing broken things. I use the knowledge of others around me, and the internet to assist and guide me. I use the knowledge of my sisters to guide me in unique and fun crafting skills, or computer issues etc. They are amazing at those skills, among others. I enjoy Foundation paper-piece quilting, and teach other women the craft. These skills bond people together, like thread bonds fabric, and a beautiful human mosaic is painted.
The value of the knowledge of the LORD our Righteousness extends far beyond all sense of knowledge and skills.
To KNOW Him is Life,
The fabric of our lives become, for us and Him, a joy and delight, when we set our hearts at knowing Him.
Tightly woven together, with the threads of
Faith, Hope and Love,
this beautiful tapestry becomes even stronger than a cord of three strands (which is not easily broken).,
It bares an eternal bond of relational knowing that
He is ours .. and we are His.
That is the knowledge we can boast in,
Messiah Jesus .. alone!
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1 Corinthians 1:26-31
For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence. But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption— that, as it is written,
“He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.”
