Knowledge The Intellectual Idiot

Knowledge 

The Intellectual Idiot 

 

Knowledge, “Input”

Short Circuit is a film from

1986 about a robot, Number 5.

Number 5 is part of a series of prototype U.S. military S.A.I.N.T.

(Strategic Artificially Intelligent Nuclear Transport)

robots built for the Cold War by NOVA Laboratories.

Number 5 is hit by a lightning-induced power surge,

scrambling its programming and giving it a sense of free will.

 

Number 5 has a hunger for “input”,

books, television, and other stimuli.

Number 5 later renames himself Johnny 5.

I am sure you have met many Johnny 5’s,

 people hungry for “input”.

I once met a man who studied religions.

His knowledge was incredible.

I remember his first words to

me as we were introduced…

“To get to know me I will

offend you in the first 5 minutes.”

He was obnoxious with his knowledge.

He had quote after quote and every one of them was

aimed to attack anything and everything I believed.

There was no way I could talk to him on his level,

I did not read the books he read or

studied all the things in detail as he did.

I realized the problem was not his

knowledge it was his ego and arrogance.

I realized all his intellectual knowledge, the decades

of “input” made him a non-believer in anything.

  

He embraced all religions but

was not sure there was a God.

To argue with this man would only

feed his ego and make me look stupid.

I told him I would not argue about God.

I said, I too, am a man of study and I

prove the things I accept into my life.

For me the evidence is clear it is not

just facts with me it is experience.

I have found the God of the Bible

to be true and that God loves me.

I told him I would not argue

with him about what I love.

My knowledge has brought me into a relationship…

An experience of love.

It was amazing this man was stopped in his tracks

he realized all of his “Input” has left him empty.

He admired what I had even though I did not

have as much “input” on world religions as he did.

Later I got a couple of calls from

people very close to this person.

They thanked me for talking to this man and

told me no one has ever been able to reach him.

The Bible says knowledge puffs up.

There are those who are intellectual idiots.

They have tons of “input” but they

don’t know what to do with it.

That day that man saw my

information was working in my life…

Hope, peace, love and conviction.

Like I would not argue about the loving relationship

my wife and I have, I would not argue about the

loving relationship I have with my God.

My knowledge is not words in a books,

it is not quotes from someone else.

It is reality in my life.

Which I love to talk about but never argue.

  

Pride makes intellectuals idiots.

  

Ask yourself the question what good

is knowledge without experience.

How does your knowledge play out in your life?

Scripture Reading

Ecclesiastes 12:8-13 NIV

8 "Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher.

"Everything is meaningless!"

9 Not only was the Teacher wise, but also he imparted knowledge to the people. He pondered and searched out and set in order many proverbs. 10 The Teacher searched to find just the right words, and what he wrote was upright and true.

11 The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails — given by one Shepherd. 12 Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them.

Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.

13 Now all has been heard;

here is the conclusion of the matter:

Fear God and keep his commandments,

for this is the whole [duty] of man.

1 Corinthians 8:1 AMP

1 NOW ABOUT food offered to idols: of course we know that all of us possess knowledge [concerning these matters. Yet mere] knowledge causes people to be puffed up (to bear themselves loftily and be proud), but love (affection and goodwill and benevolence) edifies and builds up and encourages one to grow [to his full stature].