Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Kates Playground Polka Dots

Extract from A Proverbs Driven Life by Anthony Selvaggio

Information Is About Facts, and Knowledge is about fitting
related facts together. Goal Is About Using Knowledge wisdom
well ...

Never Before in human history has There Been So Much
KM N Widely Spread Among the population. For anyone
with an internet connection, access to additional information
is essentially limitless. In the church, Christians have
never had greater access to information about the Bible and
sound theology. Yet at the same time, in both the church and
the world, wisdom is in decline. We take great pride in our
accumulated knowledge, and our hard drives are packed with
data. But in some of the most important areas of life, such
as raising children, maintaining healthy relationships, and
handling finances responsibly, a great many of us just don’t
know what to do...

Another factor that can make the pursuit and practice of
wisdom challenging is the sheer pace of daily life. The options
available to us in the modern world can be so diverse and so
distracting that we forget to pay close attention to the beauty,
simplicity, and power of the Word of God and what it teaches
us. So much of modern life seems to be about adding—adding
possessions, adding relationships, adding efficiency, adding
income, adding prestige, adding power, adding health, adding
leisure. But at the heart of godly wisdom is an ability not
to become distracted from those things that are most important
in life, and never to set them aside, even as we adapt to
certain legitimate changes in society. For amidst all the noise,
the data, the trends, the traffic, the hurry, the turmoil,
and The Bad advice, the Bible Remains o sole reliable source of
unchanging, timeless wisdom.