Proverbs 1:22 “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge.” NKJV
So, what's wrong with being simple? It seems to me that some of the best plans are the simplest ones, right? Certainly they are the easiest ones- but are they?
I love that new show on the History Channel called “Swamp People.” These folks live near or in the swamp and hunt for a living, literally. They sell some to pay bills and to buy stuff they can't get in the wild, but mostly they live off the land and call themselves “simple.”
Not hardly! Watching the show, I marvel at the complexity of hunting down and taking an alligator, not to mention the danger and the teamwork required. There are a few that hunt on their own, but even they have friends and family that throw in to bring the 'gators to market.
What today's passage means by “simple” is stupid- people who refuse to learn, refuse to take instruction and learn from it, or refuse knowledge. Do you know anyone like that? Are you like that? Not likely, or you would not be reading this.
I would like to someday visit the Swamp People and learn from them. Their knowledge base would never send a rocket into the sky, but their ability to turn knowledge into wisdom, wisdom likely refuted by the “learned” of the world, fascinates me. These folks take what God has given them and they use it, and respect it.
If only the government and the “Wall Streets” and the “Madoffs'” and the “Enrons” did the same.
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