Let us think a little about Wisdom, knowledge, power and authority.

 

Dear friends,

 

Someone said that thousands of hours of study is where true ordinary knowledge comes from.

 

John the Baptist, Jesus of Nazareth, Peter, James and John were not highly educated people but were Carpenters, fishermen, farmers. Truly “uneducated people” that Jesus with his twelve friends changed the world forever.”

 

If higher education is as great as they say, “How come the super apostles mention by Paul are not doing greater things than Jesus and his twelve?”

 

Could it be that power and knowledge are not in studies but in God’s sovereign choice of humble, ordinary men where power and authority rests?

I BELIEVE THAT IS THE CASE!!! So, no one should boast because the glory might be of the Lord alone who said GO behold I am with you forever. 

 

Every man is at water’s edge in regard to knowledge and wisdom.

I remember my daughter Keila (3) and Lois (2) at the sea shore of the Atlantic Ocean in their pink little Bikinis constantly running with the receding wave and then running back in front of the oncoming wave hardly allowing their feet to get wet.

 

They played under my watchful eyes while Osman and I with our buckets in hand would build sandcastles, while my Queen Ruthie with Dark Sunglasses would read a book under an umbrella with a cool can of A&W root beer; showing us a picture of a well deserving lady in rest and relaxation.

 

To be cooler and refreshed my daughters did not need to go any farther than to my arms in order to go deeper into the Ocean to fight securely the waves with me.

 

In the same way knowledge and wisdom can be experienced at the sea shore of God’s revelation. The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Wisdom and knowledge, even for me, is still found at the edge.

 

To get completely wet and fresh it is enough to go six feet deep in the Ocean. You will never be more wet a mile away than at six feet deep. The water at the seashore is the same as in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

 

In a way, I am a little angry that some Tele-evangelists and Religious false prophets. They are making of themselves to be indispensable for the people like the prophets of Baal were in the times of Elijah the prophet.

 

The confrontation between Elijah and the prophets of Baal was not a debate of who preached better or the loudest. The confrontation was on matters of Faith and Prayer. It was a matter of public display of power and authority or public ridicule and humiliation under penalty of death.

 

I dare say that most religious people are scattering without Jesus when they should be gathering with Jesus. Sadly, as optimistic as I am by nature, I have to say that the remnant of God’s people throughout History has never been a moral majority but the contrary is true, we were always a tiny minority.

 

During the times of Elijah there was hardly any prophets left but about eighty. Today I am afraid that Christians by name only seem to be larger than the evidences of reality according statistics.

 

The fact is that when the foam of statistics settles down, the proportion of believer’s worldwide is the same as in Elijah’s time. God is in the Corona virus just as he was in the drought of Elijah’s and Joseph’s time, to purify and prepare his people for his second coming.

 

The followers of Jesus who say: “To me to live is Christ and to died is gain”, have the opportunity now to pray out loud, “Your kingdom come. Your will be done...” thus accelerating the coming of the kingdom. 

 

Behold your choice for prayer, “Yes Jesus”, or Join the number of the Prophets of Baal praying out loud faithless prayers as to wake Baal from sleep in the hope to be rescued by lifeless idols.

 

The cookie jar of God’s answers to prayer have been placed by God the Father himself in the lower shelves at the reach of the little ones of the Lord, such as the carpenters, fishermen, farmers and not only for the well-educated high and mighty with thousands of hours of study.

 

Death is gain indeed.

 

Gerry Gutierrez

 

Pictures are of Nathaniel and Caleb, Lois and Keila and then Lois and me.