Laying Up Knowledge

For Thursday, June 9, 2005
Proverbs 10:14

The wise lay up knowledge,
but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near.

The wise build up storehouses of knowledge. You go a wise person and he/she always seems to have a good answer, even if it is to lead you to where the right answer is. A wise person lays up knowledge through all of life's experiences. He lays up knowledge from his mistakes, from his wrong turns, as well as from his successes. Every incident becomes a learning experience. Like a fool with his money is the fool with life experience; he loses the value of the experience as fast as it passes out of memory. And like the fool whose handling of money only makes him more destitute, so his experiences make him more dangerous. The older, more experienced he becomes the more false confidence rises in him, so that he thinks he is spouting wisdom while in reality is spouting foolishness and arrogance.

What are you going to learn today from your experiences? Whether your experiences are pleasant or distasteful, will you grow in wisdom, using your experience to grow in knowledge and maturity? What is God teaching you about himself? What are you learning about grace and the gospel? How is God's Word being tested for its truthfulness through your experiences? Lay up knowledge today.