Where is Wisdom Found?

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. – Genesis 3:6

We live in the middle of an ever-expanding age of information. If you want to know something, practically anything, all you have to do is "Google® it." The internet (and 24/7 access to it through smartphones) has turned us all into virtual walking encyclopedias of information. Just click "search" for the answers you need.

Unfortunately, all of this information does not seem to make us any wiser. Knowledge is not bad, but improper use of knowledge is, at best, ineffective and, at worst, dangerous. For example, Eve sought a source of wisdom apart from God and the effect of her decision (but admittedly more so Adam's) changed mankind forever.

Let us remember that wisdom is never found in the “created,” but rather in the Creator. Information is good, but to be informed by godly wisdom is so much better.

The student who has to cram through a school or a college course, who has made himself merely a receptacle for the teacher's thoughts and ideas, is not educated; he has not gained much. He is a reservoir, not a fountain. One retains, the other gives forth. Unless his knowledge is converted into wisdom, into faculty, it will become stagnant like water. – J.E. Dinger