Title

Words Without Knowledge

Scripture
Then the Lord answered Job . . . and said: “Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?”
(Job 38:1-2)
Devotional
Have you ever noticed that those who know the least more than often know it the loudest? As we do not like to hear words without knowledge, let us not speak words without knowledge. It is okay not to know everything. It is okay not to be able to add to every conversation. It is more than okay to listen and learn than to speak as if you are learned when you are not. It is the fool that always has to have an opinion. It is arrogant to think that one’s thought must always be spoken. The best conversationalist is the one who speaks little and listens much. The apostle Paul told Timothy that there are people who have, “turned aside to idle talk, desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor the things which they affirm.”(1) Therefore, to speak with uninformed confidence is to darken counsel by words without knowledge.

(1) 1 Timothy 1:6-7
Text For The Day
Job 38:1, 2: Then the Lord answered Job… and said: “Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?”
Thought For The Day
“The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.” John Milton, Of Education
 
Questions To Ponder
·         Can one be learned above their knowledge?
·         What is the source of true knowledge?
·         Why is it that knowledge puffs up (1 Corinthians 8:1)?
 
Morning Study Guide
Defining:  “Knowledge”: The awareness or conscience of things, accumulated information, to know, perception, illumination of the mind.
 
Referencing: “We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him,” 1 Corinthians 8:1-3.
 
Applying: Learn all the good you can, understand what you have learned, and apply it with wisdom.