Category: Wisdom

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How Our Intelligence Affects Who We Are

We are experiencing a time in our history in which our great intelligence is making us stupid. God has witnessed this many times with His creation, and the Bible repeatedly reminds us that the wisdom of man is foolishness to God. We see this playing out every day in our society.

A large segment of our society has gotten so intelligent that their politicians are too smart for their constituents, too smart for the Constitution, and too smart for God. This is causing a constitutional crisis.

These “smart people” are demanding that judicial immunity be extended to allow judges to break the law and obstruct the Office of our President. They have become so smart that they prefer to protect criminal migrants over their constituents.

These are the same intelligent ones who claim there are an unlimited number of genders. When even lower lifeforms seem to know better.  Let’s put it bluntly: if you think that it is fair for men to play in women’s sports, you must have a brain aneurysm larger than your brain.

Recently, one of them told me that voting for Trump would cause a Christian to lose his salvation. This guy says he’s a devout atheist, so he isn’t someone I would take spiritual advice from. So? How do we explain this neural malfunction? Over-vaccination for COVID? Solar flares? Satan? Or, have they lost their fear of God?

Do not allow your great intelligence to make you stupid.

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Speak your Truth

A new trend has emerged, advising people to “speak their truth.” It seems that the truth is all about perspective and not about actual truth. Silly me, I always thought that truth was up there next to wisdom; but, wisdom is based on fearing God. Truth now seems based on how someone sees something, whether it is true or not.

You can say that someone who has a penis is a woman. For many, they think that is the truth. To the rest of us who understand physiology, see that as lacking wisdom. So, if your truth lacks wisdom, then it is false. We live in a time in which we are seeing so much false truth. Because we lack wisdom, we cannot discern whether “our truth” is actually truth.

Worse yet, we are introducing this false truth into our schools. It is no wonder that college students are graduating dumber than when they started. Unless the curriculum is grounded in wisdom, it stands a good chance of being false. Truth has to pass the litmus test of being wise. God has to be the basis of our truth. When we turn over our truth to idiot professors, we are likely to be wrong.

So much of our truth arises from our sin. The more that we can drag others into our sin, our sin becomes their truth. Many want to teach their sin to school children and display their sin in parades. The rest of us show our lack of wisdom for looking the other way. I have committed plenty of acts of sinning against God, I am not proud of that sin, and I don’t parade it around, and I certainly don’t suggest that children be taught to accept my sin. Why? Because I have enough wisdom to realize that doing that would just be stupid.

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The Straight and Narrow Road

There lay a straight and narrow road ahead of me. The pavement is unadorned; it is littered with debris. All around me are dead shrubbery, not a single hint of green. I can see other paths far off in the distance. Those paths are beautiful and awe-striking. Many walk those roads, despite the fact that I’ve seen and foretold of the doom at their destination. Their roads are downhill, and very easy to tread on. My path ascends uphill, creating much difficulty. Yet, while weary, I press on because I see a great light, and golden gates in the clouds. There, a crowned man beckons all to come, and flee the path of immorality and death. Few obey, but those who reach Him are richly rewarded. Though I grow tiresome, and many fall away from the straight and narrow road, I continue on, strengthened through the call of the crowned man. When I reach the top, I am greeted by the crowned man in scarlet robes. He says to me “Well done, my good and faithful servant, in whom I am well pleased.” I rejoice greatly with all those who came before me. Here, we spend all of eternity praising our Master for saving us from everlasting torment.
Logan Flagler
10-23-24
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What do we seek?

22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), 1 Co 1:22–25.

  • 1 Co 1:18 | For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
  • Mt 12:38 | Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.”
  • Ga 5:11 | But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
  • Lk 2:34 | And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed
  • 1 Co 1:30 | And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
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The four primary characters in Proverbs.

There are four primary characters in Proverbs: the wise, the fool, the simple, and the scoffer. The wise embrace God’s covenant. Fools, on the other hand, are opposed to God, yet they are not beyond hope. The simple are those who remain uncommitted to either wisdom or folly, and because of that they are easily misled. Scoffers are proud and arrogant and scorn God’s ways. Other voices in the book include Lady Wisdom and Lady Folly, each of whom personifies the characteristics of her name, and the Woman of Excellence, with whom the book concludes.

Lydia Brownback, Proverbs, A 12-Week Study, ed. J. I. Packer, Dane C. Ortlund, and Lane T. Dennis, Knowing the Bible (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2014), 7–8.

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Officer Involved Shooting

Our local police responded to a parking lot full of people.  From police footage, it appears that most of the people were homeless.  One police officer approached the group and was attacked and bitten by a dog.  It appeared to me that the dog was on a leash at the time.   The officer was walking off the attack when he came back into view of the dog again, which was now off-leash.    Another officer approached the dog’s owner yelling at her to control her dog.  Her attempt was feeble, at best.  He promised her that he would shoot the dog if she didn’t gain control of it.  She didn’t and the dog attacked again and was shot four times for its efforts.

In most circumstances, I would feel sorry for the stupid dog and its owner; but, people don’t realize the impact that has on the officer.  As an animal control officer, I could have taken the dog without killing it.  That’s what we do.  But, I don’t expect a police officer to handle the situation as I would have.  Police officers are trained to think with their guns when they are in danger.  So, given the circumstances, it was a righteous shooting. Although, a Taser would have been my first choice.

Before you start thinking that I’m all full of myself, keep in mind that most animal control officers don’t carry guns.  So shooting a dog isn’t an option.  If we are experienced animal control officers, we get out of our vehicles with a ketch-pole and leash in our hands.  The prospect of getting bitten doesn’t worry us as it does police officers.  Of course, we also get more experience facing down a face full of doggie teeth.

I recall using pepper spray on a Rottweiler once.  The owners complained to the police about my use of pepper spray and when the police sergeant came out to talk to the dog’s owners, the dog attacked him.  He came just short of shooting the dog.  Once the sergeant calmed down, he told me not to worry about the complaint.  I was a little embarrassed that I stepped out of the vehicle without my ketch-pole.  After all of these years, I still feel bad about using the pepper spray.

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Taking God’s Name In Vain.

When we become Christians, we belong to God.  He has placed an invisible brand across our foreheads, taking possession of His flock.  He has placed His name on us.  It is not enough to declare who we are, God expects us to show it.  When we don’t act like one of His children, we blemish His name; thus taking His name in vain.

I pray that we let our light shine; and that we wear His name well upon us.

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God is with us.

Just a small sampling of God’s promise to be with us:

Genesis 26:3
3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.

Numbers 14:9
9 Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them.”

Psalm 27:1
1  The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the stronghold of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid?

Psalm 56:4
4  In God, whose word I praise,
in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.
What can flesh do to me?

Psalm 118:6
6  The LORD is on my side; I will not fear.
What can man do to me?

Psalm 129:2
2  “Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth,
yet they have not prevailed against me.

Proverbs 20:22
22  Do not say, “I will repay evil”;
wait for the LORD, and he will deliver you.

Isaiah 43:2
2  When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you;
when you walk through fire you shall not be burned,
and the flame shall not consume you.

Jeremiah 1:6
6 Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.”

Jeremiah 1:8
8  Do not be afraid of them,
for I am with you to deliver you,
declares the LORD.”

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Ge 26:3–Je 1:8.

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Women of the Bible

I’ve always been impressed by the faith women shown in the Bible. Their quickness of the spirit left the men around them in the dust, especially the women who appeared around Jesus.  Although men carried the faith around the world, women seemed to be the first to be sensitive to the Spirit.  Thank you Lord for the women that you place into our lives.

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Proverbs 2

When you become acquainted with the Bible, you find scriptures that draw you in.  Proverbs does that to me.  I find myself repeatedly returning to the words there.  Thanks to the Logos App, I can engage in my own personal Bible study.  I opted to use the Logos App instead of enrolling in Theological Studies at a university.  Several things drove me in this direction: cost, the worry that colleges now have lost the root of knowledge, and I wanted a self-directed approach to study.  I wanted to test the promises of Proverbs 2 to gain my knowledge.

My study today was understanding the people in that chapter.  I was delighted to see that “a woman” was listed as a person of interest.  On a lark, I hovered my cursor over the word, “woman” and found that a woman was defined as “an adult female.”  The nice thing about the Bible is that it has been steadfast throughout the centuries; not given to woke nonsense.

As I see it, wokeness formed because people had become so distant from God.  The further that they moved away from Him, the more they lost knowledge of Him.  And lost wisdom.

I was watching a YouTube video of a school board meeting in Chicago in which a parent was complaining that their daughter was forced to disrobe in front of a transgender woman ( a guy with a penis who claims to be a woman (I just wanted to be clear on the issue)).  When I said, “forced,” I mean that several women employees walked the girl back into the locker room and stood with her as she was forced to disrobed.

In the board meeting, attendees booed the parent for complaining.  I was flabbergasted as to how far we as a society have fallen away from God.  One of the speakers told the parent, “Don’t bring your white God in here.”  I could hear the flames of Hell heating up.  It is not too late to come back to Him.