"Knowledge is Never Sufficient"

I am choosing to quote a snippet from Dallas Willard's Knowing Christ Today. I am a bit apprehensive to do this since I cannot provide the full context. Oh well, you will just have to read it for yourself!! I can't wait to read the next chapter based upon Hosea 4:6, "Exactly How We Perish for Lack of Knowledge," since the first few chap's have been so rich in content! Good readin'! Please take the time to read this thoroughly.

"Knowledge alone is never enough for human life, of course. That is itself one part of the genuine Christian knowledge. And by itself, apart from some adequate moral teaching & discipline (based of course, upon knowledge), it always 'puffs one up'--as the apostle Paul in his profound knowledge of knowledge pointed out (1 Cor. 8:1). Knowledge alone sets us up for a fall. It gives a sense of substance & fulfillment to the self & to society that is an illusion. Under this illusion of substance & sufficiency, it forgets, as that wise man Paul also pointed out, that we only know "in part" (1 Cor. 8:1-3; 13:8-12) & that, as the poet Alexander Pope said, 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.' Christians know that our knowledge is always little. We rarely even have any idea of how much it leaves out. (It is this knowledge of knowledge that, along with genuine love of neighbor, enables one to avoid intolerance.) In applying what we know or think we know, the 'law of unintended effects' comes into play. When we act with even the best of available knowledge, we really don't know what the consequences will be."

I love this! It just furthers my realization of my inability to be God & it humbles me under the mighty wisdom of an all knowing God. Complete knowledge knows the consequences of every action. Who can measure this but God!?!?