Sharon Sharing God: "FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY

Friday, October 14, 2011

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Knowledge

Welcome to "Fan the Flame" Friday.

This is a weekly post that will be "short and sweet" (kinda like me...)

Just a word and a phrase, a sentence or a question...just a little something to "fan the flame" of your creativity!

Today's word: knowledge

What is knowledge, and does knowledge make you smart? Does it give you common sense?

What is the difference between knowledge and wisdom?

How does human knowledge compare to God’s knowledge?

Let me know what you think!!

"This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you…For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline." (2 Timothy 1:6-7)

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6 comments:

WandaOctober 14, 2011 at 5:41 AM
Your questions really make me think Sharon. I think the difference in knowledge and wisdom is that knowledge is knowing how to do something but wisdom is knowing the when to do it.
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DebbieOctober 14, 2011 at 7:18 AM
I think knowledge is what you know, either from study or experience. I think wisdom is not only knowing what you know but knowing what you DON'T know (metacognition... one of my favorite words) and bringing all of it to the table for application.

You can not be wise if you think you know it all.

Wise people are seekers by nature, IMO.
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Chatty CroneOctober 14, 2011 at 7:27 AM
Obviously God knows everything. I agree with Debbie - we are seekers of knowledge and wisdom - not sure we ever get there.

sandie
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bettyOctober 14, 2011 at 2:46 PM
Knowledge is the act of knowing, of taking what you have learned and then doing something with it. Wisdom is putting knowledge to work and making right decisions with what you have to work with through learning, experience, etc. I think there is a difference between the two and I know if we ask God for wisdom, he will definitely give it to us; asking for his wisdom I believe is a good thing!

betty
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AnonymousOctober 14, 2011 at 3:31 PM
Good word! I use it a lot at school. Well, I think about it a lot. Or the lack therein that our young people acquire with so many voices and choices leading them down the path of entertainment. My heart breaks for the things our youth do NOT know - and all the useless information and knowledge that they do have.

Apart from the knowledge of the Lord, all worldly knowledge is vanity - as the Preacher would say. But, than again - there's nothing new under the sun.

To Know Him - that is the ultimate knowledge. All else will follow into its place - Knowledge and her sister - Understanding.

Joy!
Kathy
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Marsha YoungOctober 14, 2011 at 7:42 PM
Knowledge is often simply the accumulation of data, facts, etc.

But knowledge rightly applied ... is wisdom. And as those above said, that only comes from above.
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"So [I] have been greatly encouraged in the midst of [my] troubles and suffering, dear brothers and sisters, because you have remained strong in your faith. It gives [me] new life to know that you are standing firm in the Lord. How [I] thank God for you!" (1 Thessalonians 3:7-9)

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MY WORD FOR 2016

GRATEFUL

Grateful: feeling or showing thanks to someone for some helpful act; appreciative of benefits received; warmly or deeply thankful; indebted; beholden.

Word origin: 1550's, "pleasing to the mind," also "full of gratitude," from obsolete adj. grate "agreeable, thankful," from Latin gratus "pleasing" – derived from the same word origin as the word "grace."

The trick to changing your behavior is to become more thankful.

The practice of gratitude involves a focus on the present moment, on appreciating your life as it is today and what has made it so.

Let us begin an eternal quest to express in new and creative ways our thanks to God.

So I'm breathing in Your grace,

And I'm breathing out Your praise.

Let our prayers be the overflow of a grateful heart to God.

Three steps in prayer:

PRAISE – praise, reverence, worship, adoration, and awe for who God is and what He does

ASK – honest, earnest, and intense requests

THANK YOU – always end with thanksgiving for everything

Pulpit commentary:

In everything give thanks.

In every circumstance – in joy and in sorrow; for everything – for prosperity and for adversity; in every place – in the house of God and on the bed of sickness.

Christians should not only be engaged in constant prayer, but in constant thanksgiving.

For this – this thankful spirit – is the will of God, His desire.

God by the gift of his Son has laid us under the obligation of perpetual thanksgiving. Our whole lives ought to be one continued thank-offering for all the blessings of redemption.

Gill's Exposition:

Thanks are to be given to him for all things…

For all temporal good things;

for our beings, the preservation of them;

for food and raiment, and all the mercies of life;

for the means of grace, the word and ordinances, and the ministers of the Gospel;

for spiritual blessings, for electing, redeeming, regenerating, adopting, pardoning, justifying, and persevering grace:

for a meetness for heaven, a right unto it, and a good hope of it;

and especially for Jesus Christ, for such a…Saviour, and advocate with the Father, as he is; and for life, peace, joy, comfort, righteousness, and salvation in him.

Thanks should be given to God in every circumstance of life; in adversity, as Job did; when not in so comfortable and agreeable a frame of soul as to be wished for…even under the temptations of Satan…since the grace of God is sufficient to bear up under them, and deliver out of them.

[Give thanks] in afflictions of every kind, since they are all for good – temporal, or spiritual, or eternal.

WHAT IS LOVE?

Love is when you are missing some of your teeth but you're not afraid to smile because you know your friends will still love you even though some of you is missing.

By Emma K. - Age 6

"Out of the mouth of babes..."

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

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Friday, October 14, 2011

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Knowledge

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