Is God's Wisdom Absent?

Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge...”

I heard a preacher teach that in the original Hebrew language, the proper interpretation is “My people are destroyed for lack of THE knowledge.” To put it simply, there’s a huge difference between going to visit someone at a white house and going to visit someone at The White House! Without THE knowledge of God, eternal and abundant life is impossible.

How tragic and ironic it is for even God’s people to be victimized and killed by a lack of the knowledge of God even though they have total access to His omniscience! So what’s really going on?

In some cases, people are ignorant because they can’t afford higher education. Sometimes information is just not available and innocent or unintentional ignorance is the result.

But when it comes to the knowledge of God, God has always made His presence and His availability known to us through nature itself, The Bible, and by the preachers God sends to prepare the Church; all of whom are witnesses that speak on God’s behalf.

Due to this being the Age of Information and by virtue of the fact that information is so widely available, when it comes to the ignorance of the knowledge of God, in most cases it must be said that such ignorance is a result of IGNORING Him one way or the other.

This slap-in-the-face rejection of God’s Truth leads to the entrapment of total deception from Satan. It’s a crying shame to believe one has been flying high like an eagle when all he’s really been doing is wearing Satan’s virtual reality glasses and stirring up mess in the hog pen!

Through the selfish ways of this world, the Devil has deceived foolish folk into believing they are smarter or superior to God, and thusly the world feels they have no need to seek God out and surrender to Him on a daily basis in every area of life.

Just like swine have no ability to perceive the value of a thing, unregenerated man has an unfortunate tendency to trample on God’s priceless pearls of wisdom and virtue.

Satan persuaded the first human beings thousands of years ago into believing they could outsmart and override God by convincing them that God didn’t have their best interest at heart, that God’s Word couldn’t be trusted and that they could become their own little ‘g’ god! Why pray, pick up a Bible, listen to a preacher and obey God when we can be our own god?

Even though God created us for His own loving purposes, human suffering is at an all time high in the world today because of mankind’s selfishnss and failure to understand the devastating results of ignoring the wisdom of God.

Since the beginning, the Devil has been trying to talk God's people out of trusting in His unconditional love towards us, as well as God's many promises to prosper us if we live for Him, and the Devil has convinced us to worship SELF (aka: the I-god).

People who think too highly of themselves suffer from a false superiority complex. They may never say it verbally but deep in their hearts, they believe they are superior to God and they attempt to create their heaven here on earth.

Thusly, they do not seek out God’s will for their lives and they eventually cause God to resist and withdraw from them.

This disconnect factor is a result of people exercising their God-given autonomy the wrong way. By choosing to reject the power, protection and provisions that God makes so freely and abundantly available, people cut off the life-force of God’s Love and eventually self-destruct.

This intentional rejection of the knowledge of God brings destruction because the improper use of our autonomy (freedom of choice) disconnects us from the only true source of life: The Life Of God.

This is why our autonomy must be surrendered to the Lord by following the example of Jesus Christ who when given the choice to preserve Himself or to save The Church said, “Father, not My will but Thy will be done.”

In doing so, Jesus demonstrated that despite the way a situation might look, and no matter how intensely we might feel in the midst of our tough circumstances, that self-sacrifice to save others who don't deserve it pleases God, it activates the supernatural power of God into our lives, and it leads to everlasting life.

Jesus taught that selfishness always leads to fear, unbelief, disconnect, isolation and self-destruction. Without the God-connection, like a branch broken from it's vine- it looks good for a while but slowly withers to death.

Therefore and in conclusion, we seek a closer personal relationship with God diligently every day because we recognize His loving ways as being far superior to the world's ways of greed and selfishness. Let's not allow intentional ignorance (the rejection of God's knowledge) to rob us of God's precious gifts!

Most church folk spend about 1-2 hours per week in worship, but how much time do we actually spend seeking out God’s wisdom and knowledge? If we REALLY know that a lack of the knowledge of God can destroy our lives, why would we fail to make our best effort to seek out God’s wisdom? Is there anything more important than the knowledge of God?

As we come to know God better by spending more and more time with Him, we learn His ways, we learn how to recognize and reject Satan's ways of fear, hate, selfishness, lack and greed, and we learn to live the abundant life of God’s unconditional love, faith, and prosperity: we operate by the supernatural power that Jesus promised us. What A Blessing!

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