Let Us Be a Humble Intellectual Man

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Ecclesiastes 10:14

The foolish are full of words; man has no knowledge of what will be; and who is able to say what will be after him?

Bible Reading for A year:[bible]00Job11:1-20[/bible];[bible]Eccle10:1-20[/bible];[bible]Prove10:14-21[/bible]

A philosopher was riding a small boat to one place. Feeling bored on the boat, he asked a sailor on the boat, "Do you understand about the philosophy?” The sailor replied, "I don’t understand.". "Well, what a pity. You have lost half of your life. Do you understand about the math? "Asked the philosopher again to the sailor. "I don’t know either," replied the sailor. The philosopher shaking his head concerned and said, "Unfortunately, even you do not understand about the math. It means that you have lost another half of your life." A few times later a large wave suddenly hit them, tossed the boat so the water came into the boat. When he knew that the boat would sink, the philosopher gets fear. Seeing that, the sailor asked him, "Sir, can you swim?" The philosopher quickly shook his head and said, "No way. Quick help me." The sailor then laughed and said," You can not swim? It means that you will lose all your life. "

The story of philosopher and sailor above is a picture of what many people did in general. As man who has mind, we often consider ourselves as the most intelligent among others. Moreover, many accomplishments that we achieve successfully, make us thinking that we are the ones who know most of the life so that we often talk a lot, give any lectures without we realized that we had underestimated others.

Brethrens, God frequently mentions in His word that it looks like an empty barrel whose loudly sound, only the foolish are always lots of talk and talks arrogantly. The Word of God says, "Do not you always say arrogant, do not scorn out of your mouth. Because the omniscient Lord God, and by him deeds are tested. "(1 Sam 2:3) Therefore, let us learn to be people whose humble and good intellectual. Whatever our accomplishments, there are many others out there are far more intelligent than we are.

Like a growing clumps of rice contains more ducking, Let the more we gain knowledge, the more we satisfy ourselves with humility.