Education vs. Educated

 Education in a lot of environments is just misunderstood.  We have to do more than just tell our children to get a good education.  What does that mean?  Is acquiring a good education based on where we go to school, the teacher, or the information?  The first thing that must come across to us in order to get a good education is that we must understand that we must get the understanding of it.  I remember as a teen when my grandmother would literally drag me to church.  On this one particular Sunday, the preacher was talking about faith.  He read scriptures about faith and he talked about the faith of certain people.  He pounded in my head that day faith and how important it is.  But, when I left that day, all I kept coming up with is that I don’t understand faith.  He failed to teach me how to apply faith to my life.  Many of us have a formal education.  A lot of us have received an education simply from the environment we grew up in.  Getting an education is one way for us to get information.  But, to be educated, is to know how to use that information.

Rhon Johnson

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 Scripture Reference:

Proverbs 4:7

 Wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting, get Understanding. 

   Though it cost all you have, get understanding.