A Life-long Learning...

The work and worry of this world

Can bleed a lifetime dry

Its seasoned floors and corridors

Perplex the craving sigh

The crawlspace of ten thousand years

Hinges upon each breath

Eternity and moment-spree

Juxtaposed; life with death

The passageway from Here to There

Is littered with lost tears

Man’s gaudy toast or bravest boast

Cannot assuage our fears

For the Unknown no one can know

Save He who tunes the tides

While mortals curse, the universe

In flawless discourse bides

Annulment wrought by human mind

Though humankind oft tries

Cannot appease with fantasies

This slip-of-skin demise

Where work and worry of this world

Would bleed soul-bearings dry

Lest we adhere with reverent fear

To He who knows the Why

© Janet Martin

 Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

 Job 28:28
And he said to the human race, "The fear of the Lord--that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding."

Psalm 111:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.

Proverbs 9:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

 Our son has begun to take a keen interest in world news; esp. politics and the American election campaign. Last night as he voiced some valid fears and I searched for words of reassurance all I could

do was encourage him to be informed but not consumed, because we have no idea what the future holds...but God does and any words of comfort without placing our trust in Him, are meaningless!

Oh, but trust is a life-long learning...

the story behind this hymn here

Ignorance's Masquerade

Knowledge gloats, bickers and drivels

When stripped of the Giver’s guide

Wisdom resounds, Heaven's Phoenix

From ashes of Adamic pride

Knowledge makes noise, a student

Never acquiring its goal

Without Wisdom’s divine nature

Infiltrating the Whole

Knowledge, but a battered scepter

In Ignorance’s masquerade

If we deny the Creator

Whereby all things are made

© Janet Martin

No matter how well-learned someone may be, they cannot be aware of the absence of authenticity when an attitude of atheism fails to acknowledge the One whereby all knowledge is given. 

Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, Prov. 1:5

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prov.1:7

For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. Prov.2:6

Knowledge and Wisdom

We may have knowledge

To cover the earth

But it’s what we do with it

That measures its worth

***

Knowledge on its own

Is not of much use

Knowledge without wisdom

Is like a tree without roots

***

One may absorb a world of knowledge

Yet be unprepared for the strife

Of living, for wisdom is not found in college

But in the lessons of life

***

Knowledge without wisdom

Is like a ship without a sail

Its hold is full of luggage

At the mercy of the gale

***

Knowledge is a hat

Wisdom is a crown

© Janet Martin

(I began this as a 'Thursday thoughts' post, but Thursday ran out of hours:)

The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding. Prov. 4:7

Scripture teaches us the importance of knowledge and wisdom and understanding.

Incompletions...

Sometimes it bothers me

To realize

That I know too much

About too little

Silver drops of time expand

And knowledge inflates

The mind

With nothing

Wisdom; the wise covet it and learn

But oh, I cannot rush wisdom

And I know too little

About too much

There are things I know too much of

That I desire to know nothing about

and there are things I know nothing of

That I would desire to know  much about

© Janet Martin

Of All We Full Well Know...

Full well we know we cannot see

Beyond our toil and trouble

Full well we know eternity

Will claim life’s fleeting bubble

Full well we know tis but one life

Allotted to each man

Full well we know we aught to give

The best of what we can

Full well we know these days of grass

Fall swiftly to oblivion

And soon eternities will pass

One moment as a million

Full well we know His way is Peace

His grace has paid our debt

And though full well we know all this

How sadly we forget

Full well we know Time is a glance

Full well we realize

We cannot fathom timelessness

Above life’s little skies

Full well we know we do not know

The ways of Providence

Yet, by the mercies He bestows

His gifts are evidence

…of Love and Joy and Hope and Peace

To comfort us below

In all of life uncertainties

For all we do not know

© Janet Martin

Poetic Bloomings Prompt: Uncertainties

Oh, What Then?

We observe in astonishment

Man’s newest accomplishment

And wonder what will follow

Scientists place

Their cameras in space

As we glimpse infinity’s hollow

Medicine keeps the dying alive

But no matter how we study and strive

We cannot touch the order

Of God-ordained things

Or alter the courses

His authority brings

Mornings will ever succeed the night

Two wrongs will never make a right

We all get older with each passing hour

And none are exempt from His grace or His power

No one can order the rain from the sky

There is no invention so we will not die

We cannot shuffle seasons in nature or man

Or rearrange one molecule of His plan

For He IS God, we are merely men

We are born, we die; and oh, what then?

Perhaps we ought to take a closer look

At His Word and teaching of His Book

For nothing will happen that He has not told

His truths are unfolding since centuries of old

Knowledge is admiral; His gift to men

But if we ignore the Giver; oh, what then?

  

© Janet Martin

Outer space images fill me with utter wonderment and awe!

How GREAT is our God.

He has given men the knowledge to glimpse infinity, but we CANNOT add one jot to TIME!

Time is a wee capsule...what then?

Oh, that's right! Eternity.

But His Book shows us the way to Him eternally. He did not leave us as sheep without a Shepherd for He IS love.

Just as I Am- B.J. Thomas