Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered outside the gate. Therefore, let us go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach. For we have no continuing city here, but we seek one to come.
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The world thinks that a wise man is a man who knows much and that a fool is a man who knows little. As is always the case, the world is wrong. A wise man is a man who recognizes the voice of God when he hears it, and a fool is one who does not.
If a man never spent one day in school and cannot so much as write his name, but he can be taught by Christ, he is wise. He is wise because his heart's door is open to Wisdom himself, and he can be influenced by Wisdom's voice. He is wise because he acknowledges the words of Wisdom to be wise words, and he is willing to humble himself to the superior wisdom of God. On the other hand, if a man owns prestigious degrees from the most exalted universities of earth, but he will not listen to Jesus, he is a fool. He is a fool because his heart is hardened against Christ, the fountain of all wisdom and knowledge, and because he refuses to be influenced by the truth of Christ. "He is proud, knowing nothing."
A truly wise man is not "wise" because of what he knows but because of who he knows: Jesus. And a fool is "foolish" because all men without Christ are foolish. There are no other options. Every way but the way of Jesus is foolish. Let the Spirit of God remove from your mind the definitions of wisdom and foolishness that the world has given to you and replace them with God's definitions. Only what God says is true. And they alone are wise who recognize His sweet, holy voice and who will change their ways to conform to whatever He says is right.