I think foolish best describes an intellectual's ways I know it sounds ironic, but I'll enlighten you on what the world says Or rather what the world thinks
See, I grew up thinking that reading was learning And learning was knowledge And that knowledge was born from logic And finally that logic was wisdom
Is it just me or did we all grow up in a society that was blinkered to view wisdom as education With our minds blinded to see intellect as knowledge Thinking knowledge is power, power is money and money is...well...everything Well, money does answer all, but it is not everything You see, mankind's intelligence never satisfies The more learned we become the more the world slips away The more knowledge we possess The more the world becomes complex
We believe ourselves to be the I AM With the power to know everything We seek wisdom in philosophy But it only makes us realize we are fools That the wise don’t exist on earth Unless we seek wisdom in the great I AM And forget that earthly knowledge is power
Well, knowledge is power, but WISDOM Wisdom is ETERNITY It is the eternal life that we're all working towards The life that that thief on the cross had to look forward to Only because he was wise enough to recognize his salvation and his Saviour So, dear stewards, the best that you can give your children is not a Harvard or Oxford kind of education The most valuable gift is not the concept of making money
The best that you can give to those in your care is wisdom This wisdom is the knowledge of a man Who abandoned His own kingdom To die for foolish simple men
A man who stood before so called high judges Yet He was the Most High A man who humbled the proud And used the foolish things to shame them For His word says that even His foolishness Is greater than our wisdom For His thoughts are not our thoughts Neither are his ways our ways
So, all I'm saying is The most valuable legacy that you can leave Is the knowledge of the One with all the wisdom, The wisdom to choose God For we only find wisdom when we realize, we are nothing but fools before Him