The Knowledge of Two Worlds
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:9
Too much knowledge they say will turn some mad, the proverbial mad scientist, as it were. Others turn "snooty" becoming intellectual snobs. They look down at others. When considering those less educated, they breathe disdain avoiding others like the plague.
Then there are some who seem to handle it well.
Those we consider smart are called "wizards," "gurus," or "geniuses."
In the church world it is no different.
There exists a spiritual idea that moves much to the same effect in religious circles. A person who gains too much knowledge about heaven is said to be "too heavenly-minded to be any earthly good." But is this true?
We have seen knowledge corrupted to where the understanding of abortion exists, and we now catalog ways to murder a person. We find paths to undermine our neighbor or defraud a business or government.
Though these are used everyday in the earth, and some consider them good, they are corruptible forms of knowledge.
The knowledge that is considered "good" in today's world is not always so.
But is the knowledge of God different? Is it better than the knowledge of the earth?
Pure Knowledge
But the wisdom from above is first pure,…
James 3:17
According to Isaiah there is a higher way to think, God's way. James tells us that God's wisdom is pure, not corrupted.
Therefore, when the Lord sends us wisdom from above, it is pure, uncorrupted and higher than we normally think.
Isaiah writes another idea about the Lord's knowledge.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,
For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
As the waters cover the sea.
Isaiah 11:9
God's knowledge will not hurt anyone, giving rise to the idea that man's knowledge benefits some but hurts others but pure knowledge is good for all. God's knowledge brings redemption.
Paul wrote a similar idea to the church at Ephesus.
In Him ......in all wisdom and insight having made known to us the mystery of His will,
Ephesians 1:7-9
We are told that God gives "all" knowledge and makes known mysteries. James again tells us that this knowledge is pure. Later, Paul writes:
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of glory,
may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation
in the knowledge of him:
Ephesians 1:17
Light and the Eye
We know that to understand something is light. We say "it dawned on me that was the answer."
Dawn is an illustration of a rising sun which brings light to a dark world. We also say that was illuminating indicating that we understand since someone has "shed light" upon a subject.
We also use the idiom, "I see," to acknowledge that we now grasp an idea.
Light and the eye are connected to knowing.
Finally, Jesus tells us that the light of the body is in in the eye. He was telling us how we understand things in this world.
The light of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Matthew 6:22-23
Jesus said that there is a good knowledge and a bad one. There is a knowledge of good and of evil.
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