Is Knowlege Power?

Knowlege can work for us or against us depending on what we do with it. We agree that all knowledge is not good, but knowledge that is God's truth is.

The Pharisees had much knowledge; they knew the law well and even knew how to interpret it for application. Jesus had knowledge, too; He also knew the law well, afterall He wrote it with His Father in heaven, but that is beside the point. Jesus also knew how to interpret the law for application. But there was one difference between Jesus and the Pharisees. Jesus knew how to turn knowlege into wisdom.

If we turn knowledge into wisdom by walking in its truth and making that truth evident by our actions, then knowledge works for us.

But if we are not careful, education and knowlege damages us by puffing us up and puffing us out. It can simply be knowledge that lays dormant in our pride and causes that pride to infect and spoil our character, for the Bible says that "...knowledge becomes arrogant..." (1 Corinthians 8:1) and that arrogance brings a person low, humbling them until they can reach the wisdom that directs them to God's righteouness. Being humbled by the Lord is not a fun process, just ask Nebuchadnezzar. (Daniel 3-4)

Knowledge in our minds that is not turned into wisdom by our actions is a virus in our processors. It becomes a worthless element that pervades and fills our minds, clogging it; it cannot be utilized; therefore it becomes a stench in the soul, wreaking with the smell of sin, smelling much like the Pharisees. They were a stagnant pool that diseased themselves and those in their company. But Jesus was and is a pool that gives refreshment, a water that gives life to the soul. He was the proof of wisdom in the actions He produced, not just because of Who He was but because of What He did.

So the question lies, what are we doing with the knowledge of God's truth? Is it a stagnant pool infecting us and those in our presence, because it is not producing actions that vindicate it? Or is it wisdom that is justified by our actions and refreshing by its existence seen in our lives? The truth of the matter is this: Knowlege is only power when its transformed into wisdom.