Having Much Yet With So Little

[401 words] One of the first proverbs Solomon wrote was “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction” (1:7). So many people grasp for knowledge in books, journal articles, magazines, digital media, and so on and so forth. People can search out knowledge of God in commentaries, Bible encyclopedias and dictionaries, try to understand the original languages with help from grammar books, lexicons, and computer software. With all these resources more readily available to the average person than ever before in the history of mankind, one will not scrape the surface of true knowledge without fear. Solomon wrote this about fear, “Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure with trouble. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a fatted calf with hatred ” (Proverbs 15:16-17). Far too often, man’ s greed gets in…