Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, December 19, 2019
LEARN
LEARN LONG AS YOU LIVE
Knowledge is the natural baseline of wisdom and understanding. It is also the armor of initiative, the bulwark of the ambitious.
Getting knowledge is necessary but not sufficient into itself to gain and keep power. For mere, disembodied, knowledge lacks the means for that practical self-expression of its inert applications for that which it knows.
The key word is “disembodied” for it particularizes knowledge as inert. Inert means intellectual or spiritual.
“Faith without works is dead” says the Bible; stating “Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.”
James 2:18.
Faith is intellectual, thoughts, inert. Bodies materially apply knowledge to practical circumstances in faith for outcomes based on precedents.
Thus, if disembodied knowledge is inert, bodies without knowledge are directionless, dispirited, plain, base.
Life’s spiritual upshot, knowledge, needs bodies to do the will of divine intelligence: instinctual or learned.
Bodies need intelligence to work the work of the Giver of matter\energy, that’s commonly called knowledge .
Knowledge is dynamic. It requires continuous improvements, since the cosmos, heaven, earth, are growing continuously, infinitely, dynamically.
Learn as long as you have a faculty for breathing to stay connected to eternal universal accretions of God.
Amen.