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SPORTSMAN’S MEDITATION

Balancing Knowledge and Wisdom
By Pastor Jim Sinclair

The bible teaches us that in the last days Knowledge will increase, Daniel 12: 4 But you, Daniel,
keep this prophecy a secret; seal up the book until the time of the end, when many will rush
here and there, and knowledge will increase." (NLTse)
I’m not trying to predict when the end will be, but it’s safe to say that knowledge is increasing, things we buy today are
outdated in a very short time. Technology is skyrocketing.
Knowledge is a wonderful thing, but applied knowledge which is called wisdom is a must.

Solomons Wise Judgement. 1 Kings 3:16-28
16 Some time later two prostitutes came to the king to have an argument settled. 17 "Please, my lord," one of them began,
"this woman and I live in the same house. I gave birth to a baby while she was with me in the house. 18 Three days later this
woman also had a baby. We were alone; there were only two of us in the house.
19 "But her baby died during the night when she rolled over on it. 20 Then she got up in the night and took my son from
beside me while I was asleep. She laid her dead child in my arms and took mine to sleep beside her. 21 And in the morning
when I tried to nurse my son, he was dead! But when I looked more closely in the morning light, I saw that it wasn't my son at
all."
22 Then the other woman interrupted, "It certainly was your son, and the living child is mine."
"No," the first woman said, "the living child is mine, and the dead one is yours." And so they argued back and forth before the
king.
23 Then the king said, "Let's get the facts straight. Both of you claim the living child is yours, and each says that the dead one
belongs to the other. 24 All right, bring me a sword." So a sword was brought to the king.
25 Then he said, "Cut the living child in two, and give half to one woman and half to the other!"
26 Then the woman who was the real mother of the living child, and who loved him very much, cried