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Top 6 Bible Verses-The Price of Ignorance

Top 6 Bible Verses-The Price of Ignorance …

Ignorance is costly…

Top 6 Bible Verses-The Price of Ignorance

I know from personal experience…

With a dishwasher…

Which could be a way of saying that I am plenty ignorant.

You be the judge…

I loaded the dishwasher one night

You know the routine…

First the dirty dishes…

Then the dish-washing liquid.

Finally I push the ON/OFF button.

Nothing happens.

No little lights glow on the control panel.

Maybe if I push the ON/OFF button again…

Nothing.

In the basement, I flip the circuit breaker.

Still nothing.

Hours later, my wife washes the dishes by hand.

Suddenly…

As if it is taunting her…

The empty dishwasher starts.

On its own.

Not a good sign.

The next day, I call a repairman…

An expensive repairman.

He looks at the dishwasher.

“Strange,” he says…

And looks under the sink…

“There’s the problem!”

He points to a cord dangling from an outlet.

He pushes it all the way in.

The lights on the dishwasher glow.  

“I feel stupid,” I say.

“You just didn’t know,” he says.

“Here’s the bill.”

I just didn’t know.

And I paid a price for my ignorance.

I’d tell you how much…

But then I’d just feel stupid all over again.

Let’s just say that the cost of ignorance can be high.

Sometimes…

The cost of my ignorance has been even higher…

Sometimes…

I can’t even count it in dollars and cents

Times when I trusted I my own ignorance…

Instead of trusting the wisdom and grace of God…

Wonder what the Bible says about God’s wisdom and our Ignorance?

Top 6 Bible Verses-The price of Ignorance …

Proverbs 28:26 

Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

James 1:5 

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

2 Timothy 3:16 

 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,

Times when I knew where I wanted to go…

Was certain and boastful in my ignorance about how things would turn out…

Proverbs 27:1 

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

And forgot to ask God…

The only One with real knowledge about tomorrow, where He wanted me to go…

Proverbs 19:2 

Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.

1 Peter 1:13-16 

Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

Top 6 Bible verses-The price of Ignorance …

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