Shedding Ignorance!

So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed. Ephesians 4:11-19 NIV

Ignorance by definition is a lack of knowledge or understanding. To some degree, no matter how much knowledge we think we have, we are all ignorant about some matters, but when wisdom reigns, we recognize what we don't know and if we need to know--obtain the knowledge about the matter so we are no longer ignorant about it.

The ignorant are not so. They have not been introduced to wisdom and therefore wisdom cannot reign in their lives so they cling to ignorance like some children cling to a moldy, filthy, blanket--their insecurities--won't let them be relieved of the blanket long enough for it to be cleaned and so it stinks and all sorts of bacteria breed within the fibers and spreads disease, causing more stench. But that insecure child--the one that clings to that moldy, malodorous blanket--doesn't seem to mind the stench, the filth, or the bacteria clinging to them.

That's how children act--and it's forgivable because they are children, but when adults and over-aged toddlers cling to ignorance--there's a problem. Now, like the children--adults cling to their ignorance out of fear--the fear that knowledge will force to see truth and the fault of what they once believed. So they will wear their ignorance with pride--not realizing how foolish they look and they won't care.
We cannot force people to shed their ignorance--they have to want to shed it and exchange it for knowledge, but they can only do that--when they allow wisdom to reign in their hearts. Therefore, the ignorance we see in those who profess a love for an idiot--is what the ignorant want and there's nothing we can do about it.

What is amazing to me is how many people appear to idolize a person who is about to create havoc with their healthcare, poison their streams, and pollute the very air they breathe, just so corporations can get rich not having to follow any guidelines for safety reasons. The ignorant believe--because it's what they've been told and will not research any information for themselves--that de-regulations allow corporations to hire more people. They don't bother to think about the "safety" issues that will persist, their only concern is the money they'll make, but it they'll end up spending--not enjoying--on healthcare issues. There is no fair exchange with de-regulations and the only ones who will profit by it are the corporations--not the people who work for them.

The ignorant have no problem with the dissolution of the Department of Education because they don't have an education--no wisdom to see what the end result will be.

The ignorant have no problem with streams being polluted by toxins dumped into the water because they seldom drink water--at least from what I've seen of the interviews conducted in the local pubs.

The ignorant have no problem with air pollution as a result of the chemicals and toxins in the air and they apparently see no problem with everyone eventually having to wear masks like those in China. There's a reason why products are made so cheaply in China--there are no safety regulations.  People wear the masks to protect them from the toxins in the air, but the death rate in China is up--but since the productivity in China is driven by American companies who are saving a bundle in manufacturing--no one cares about the people who are incapacitated by the air and water pollution and fact that their fish is poisoned and they eat it and sell it others.

But why should Americans living in America worry about the Chinese and their problems? We'll soon have the same problems and as it is in every society, only the strong will survive and in this case--only the rich who can afford to drink filtered water, hoard goods in sheltered areas, and live in air-filtered environments--will survive, all because the ignorant disdained knowledge and truth and voted for an idiot who only cares about himself.

Even so--those of us with wisdom and knowledge must keep pouring out truth so that on the day we all stand before God in judgment--we can say honestly say--we did not wear ignorance as a skin-tight garment, but shed it in exchange for knowledge so we would know truth.

Think about it! What are you wearing or what's clinging to you? Is it ignorance or wisdom? I choose to wear wisdom with pride in the knowledge that God would not have me ignorant about those things or people who are not his. I shed that ignorance a long time ago and have no desire to reclaim it. What about you?