In Scripture is that electrical passage.

It’s 2 Timothy 3:7,  where it speaks of those who are “always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

Let it sink in, during this time when we hear on a nearly daily basis about this Harvard graduate or that Stanford one, about Columbia and Princeton. Governments these days tap whatever the equivalent is in their countries of the Ivy League as a matter of robotic course.

That’s fine, when eidetic knowledge, when simple memory, or playing chess, is the prerequisite.

But all too often, the most highly touted scholars are at the same time all but the most lacking in spirituality; many are too “smart” to believe much in God.

That can’t be construed, in any venue, as true intelligence–which actually can’t be defined.

So don’t define yourself by their standards.

Every person has a unique intelligence; every person is equal.

For there are various forms of smart, and scoring high on a narrowly structured SAT or IQ or LSAT is only one form of cognizance.

“Always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

Impossible it is to measure intuition, imagination, and emotional intelligence, among other forms of sagaciousness.

Can anyone who truly believes that even something as “low” on the evolutionary scale as a butterfly or fish could come into being–its coordinated colors, its perfectly sculpted, uniform scales, its digestive, respiratory, and immune system, its eyes, its navigational ability–by mere happenstance (let alone a mammal. a human)?

Only the Great Deceiver–who, granted, is a superintelligence–could convince the societies of this passing world of that. Only the worldly can be deceived (by the Prinnce of This World).

The sad truth is that our governments, culture, educational systems, and societies, and too often our seminaries, are fashioned within the confines of rationalism.

Add to it pride, and all too often the result is agnosticism or atheism: a person is too “smart” to believe in a Deity.

Actually, what it comes down to is a person too limited in his or her concept of reality (albeit great at taking tests) to appreciate the formation of that reality by a massively, endlessly, unimaginably more intelligent Force.

So it is that we find ourselves in so many fixes and conundrums: we rely on human “intellects” instead of the Holy Spirit, instead of prayer.

Let this be known: many are the little old ladies or hobbled old men or maids or cleaning people whose wisdom exceeds that of the founders of Facebook, say, or Tesla.

Don’t let these people define you.

Break out of any mold they have cast you into.

Your mind is spirit and spirit is endless. Your humility is wisdom. Your faith is the highest form of knowledge.

Only with God can final truth known; only truth is wisdom.

That’s available only when we seek God at every turn.