It’s graduation season. From grade school to advanced college degrees, people are celebrating the acquisition of knowledge. It has required much time & study… stuffing information into their brains hoping to retrieve it in such a way to pass the test. It leaves us with a sense of, “I’ve got this!”

Probably at no other time in history have we had this amount of knowledge. One would think with record high knowledge we would be making better decisions. But look around. Anxiety, division, fear… every metric reveals something is missing.

Several years ago, I supervised a supported employment program to enable people with developmental disabilities to work in the community. I remember the afternoon I walked into the restaurant, and the owner met me at the door and said, “Get them out of here!” I asked, “Why? Johnny (the supported employee) has been doing so good.” The owner replied, “It’s not Johnny, it’s that man you brought in here to teach Johnny how to do the job. He told me he was not going to college to wash dishes.”

The long and the short of the story is, Johnny kept his job, but the intern lost his when he told me, “I’m getting my Masters in Rehabilitation, not in dish washing!” This seems to be the prevailing strategy today.

Recently a well-known TV personality interviewed a man of faith. The TV person kept confronting the man of faith with, “learned scholars disagree with you.” The man of faith never wavered. He later replied he prepared for “just such a time” in prayer, asking for wisdom.

What the “smart & educated TV personality did not recognize is that “Wisdom” is a supernatural power. We find it in 1 Kings 3, when Soloman became king, God asked him, “What do you want? Ask, and I will give it to you!” (1 Kings 3:5). Soloman replied, “Give your servant therefore an understanding mind (wisdom) to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?” (1 Kings 3:9)

God tells from James 1:5-8, “If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.”

God gave Paul a message for the world today. It is what the world is missing. “We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of His will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of His holy people in the kingdom of light. For He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” Corincles 1:9-14

Ponder: Proverbs 4:5-7 “Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn away from them. Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you. The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding.”

Are you asking for wisdom first?