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FAITH AND KNOWLEDGE
FIDES QUAERENS INTELECTUM
By Leonardus Nana
It
is common to find the name of a saint for the name of an organization like
school, church and other religion institutions. There are lot of catholic
schools take Santa or Santo for their names, for example, they have Saint
Gabriel Senior High School, Saint Peter Elementary School or Saint Mary
Kindergarten and so forth.
Fides Quaerens Intelectum sounds strange or
peculiar but when you come to Jalan Eltari Sasi Kefamenanu Timor, East Nusa
Tenggara Province, you will find Fides Quaerens Intelectum.
Fides
Quaerens Intelectum is a Catholic Senior High School on Eltari street Sasi
Kefamenanu Timor, East Nusa Tenggara Province.
This Catholic Senior High School was built in 2006 by Pater Antonio
Razzoli, OFM.Conv, a missionary from Italy.
Fides Quaerens Intelectum derived
from Latin term means Faith to Lead Intellect. We do not know the background of
choosing Fides Quaerens Intelectum as the name for this Catholic Senior High
School.
The House of Education
Learning and be educated are firstly
started in family, at home, in neighborhood, and the environment. People then
can continue to learn in school, at work place and/or from society. Learners can learn from themselves, parents,
and sister-brother and from the others as it was written “People learn from one another just an iron sharpens iron, Proverb
27:17. In addition, nature is actually the first and the good source of
learning as it was written (Lazy) People should learn a lesson from the way
ants live. They have no leader, chief or ruler, but they store up their food
during the summer, getting ready for winter (Proverb 6:6-8).
Fides
Quaerens Intelectum is the House of
Education. Education means systematic
training and instruction by which human can gain skills and knowledge. The
skill and knowledge are useful to develop the capacity and capability in order
to enhance the qualities of intellectual, moral, mental power and character.
Education will give one power and authority to manage her/himself, her/his
understanding and skills so that her/his moral and character fit what God
requires of her/him; God requires of her/him to do good deed.
Education
is a part of human life but it is not a product of human. Education is a given;
it is a gift from God. God poured this great gift into our hearts because we
are his temple. Therefore, we should guard this gift (education) well for it is
our lives (read Proverb 4:13b).
Education
is our life that produces us knowledge and this knowledge makes us clever. A
clever person has capability and capacity to be certain about what he believes
and consistent in what he says and committed in what he does (Sirach 5:9).
In
addition, Education is your life that grows faith and by the faith you can be
sure to apply your intellect successfully. When you succeed in applying your intellect,
you will be called a well-educated person for by faith you have, you can
utilize your intellect to receive not only honor and power but also you will be
made worthy to praise God for the miracles He performs (Sirach 38:6).
Good Place for Learning
Fides
Quaerens Intelectum Senior High School is an institution for learning and
educating children. Many children of various family backgrounds and from
different district are sent to learn and be educated. They learn social
science, economic science, natural science, mathematic, physic, science of
information and technology, art and skill, etc. The school also provides
social-cultural and spiritual activities like praying, holy devotion, music,
and art.
Fides Quaerens Intellectum Senior
High School is a Catholic boarding School. All students should stay in
dormitory so children should leave their parents and spend their time learning to
study in Fides Quaerens Intellectum. The main ideology is that children should spend their time learning at
least three years of education is necessary in order to give theem reasonable
opportunities later in life.
Fides Quaerens Intelectum is considered a good place for encouraging
students and teachers to comprehend that
learning is fun and could be done at
anytime and in any places in the whole of life – Long Life Learning. It gives students
opportunities not only to learn for knowledge of intellect but also knowledge
of faith. The purpose is that by adequate intellect and strong faith, students
can build
themselves to become independent and self-confident so that they can grow up to
become self-reliant (not
needing help or support from other people). The reason is if you are good reliant
person, and have knowledge about the world that you live in and have strong
believe in you what you have (capacity), life gets a lot easier, and you will
have better chances of getting or creating a good job.
Therefore,
everyone should learn as it was written Learn where understanding, strength
and insight are to be found. Then you will know where to find a long and full
life, light to guide you and peace.”-Baruch 3:14
The above holy verse wants to convince
everyone especially parents that sending their children to study in Fides
Quaerens Intellectum Catholic Senior High School is an advantage.
Fides
Quaerens Intellectum is a character Catholic Senior High School. When you send
your children
here means you are giving them the best opportunity to experience better
education that emphasis on character building, value and spiritual that other
schools may neglect them.
Here,
the students feel comfortable and supported. They feel safe, and they can
hopefully get excited about what they’re learning and have the time and the
resources to explore those things that excite them. You know how? Students are given all kinds of
activities, like studying and science. The school also provides social-cultural
and spiritual activities like praying, holy devotion, music, and art.
Fides Quaerens Intelectum is an
environment that engages children in a way that lights their imagination.
Children are not vessels to be filled but flames to be ignited. They can
develop curiosity about the world and they get the tools to understand how to
learn and how to investigate it. Students are facilitated to use their time to
make early preparation, about the next topic they are going to learn by reading
any resources in the library or browsing from internet. They revise the past
lesson by making group discussion, making report, or writing paper, giving daily
English or German morning speech, etc. in addition, students are assisted to
focus and focus not only on text books or the lessons from teacher. But also to
get contextual information regarding any current issue.
How could the above of learning
conditions be done by your children?
Fides Quaerens Intelectum has credible personnel (teachers) who definitely
are really passionate about the students’ success, because there are some
teachers who really don’t care about what the students do. They teacher always
observe the learning condition or learning progress of every student. They
always facilitate, support and encourage every student to reach their heights
in learning.
The Character of Students
It is common to find if most of
the today’s children are hardly to apply themselves or
attempt to learn something from the class or to follow the rules, which
are set in a learning institution. They are always coming late to school, sleeping during class, stealing other student's property,
failing in their exams and bullying the other learners. They are lazy,
indiscipline, irresponsible, dishonest and impolite. In addition, they like
making friend not for studying together but mostly for doing such bad activities
like mocking, drinking alcohol, having drugs and smoking.
Moreover,
it is undeniable if we find some students will take their lesson books to study
just at the time when they are having examination. Your children
cannot become a good student in one night, but you should teach them good
character and build their good study habit that is essential to be a successful
student. Without good character and good
study habits, they will fall behind, they will positively perform poorly on
tests as assessments, and of course they will not complete work on time. All of
this will affect their achievements negatively.
You,
parents, might be difficult to build your children character
and study habit because your children
might be one who only comes home to change his/her uniform, to have meals or
asking you for some money. All of his/her chances are spent with friends on the
road, side walk, game center, discotheque and so forth.
The above mentioned activities
or habit will positively lead a student does violence and even commit
crime. All this happen because they do
not have good character building.
Fides
Quaerens Intelectum characterizes every student a good human.
Every child is unique or she/he is
special in some way because of the background she/he has. Some children come
from well-educated family; behave and well-established family, whereas the
others or the rest may come from poor families and/or illiterate family. In
addition, some children are coming from cities which provide good and modern
facilities in the field of education, health, communication, transportation and
other public facilities. But the others are coming from villages where they
should stay in the darkness at night because there is no electricity yet. They
don’t have any good facilities to support their lives, therefore, most of them
only live a life that lack of information, do not have adequate education and
do not have better service in health and so forth. Most of them are poor.
The family backgrounds will
positively contribute a special mental state which affects a person's behavior
or character as well as ability to learn things or study in school.
You know what? Some children may
feel inferior because they come from village, poor family and/or illiterate
parents. While the others who come from well-educated family; behave and
well-established family may feel superior and show off with their family
background and/or their home town.
The above contradicted conditions
can influence the learning habit and affect the progress of learning. Some of
the inferior children will quickly recognize themselves to rise up and make good
stride and leap but the others will fall and fail. In contrary, some of the
superior children will forget to look into their heart but only look outside,
so they boast of themselves and making no personal effort to compete, so that
they fail. However, some other could look into both side (inside and outside
themselves), so they will easily get their height.
Fides Quaerens Intelectum is built
for the mission of characterizing every student a good human. Every child is
unique and Fides Quaerens Intelectum will recognize and treat every student
base on their uniqueness. At this step, the learners are encouraged to
acknowledge that there is no inferior child or superior one. There is no stupid
student or clever one but there is only learner who has opportunity,
confidence, passion and love to love her/himself and to love what she/he does.
By good confidence, passion and love, a student will have opportunity to know that she/he is special and has power or given-gifted to build her/his self a good character. She/he will never show attitude or feel proud for all special things or character she/he possessed. She/he should instead try to use the confidence, passion and love in such a way that maximum to live a life in honesty, respecting others, hard working and having good sense of right and wrong.
The confidence, passion and love are the characters that enable students to act appropriately in all situations. Example of good character: Returning someone's wallet even if full of money. Always being non violent, not using bad language and learning and working to the best of her/his ability at her/his place of learning (family, school, dormitory, church, society and environment).
However,
we know if there is no child will drink medicine voluntarily and on the same
way no students are always eager and
ready to learn and to build the character by
themselves. They should learn or imitate from others, especially the adults
around them like parents and teachers.
Every
member of Fides Quaerens Intelectum is credible personnel who
is really passionate to characterize every child a good student. He/she will
make every child a student who is well rounded with consistent and good
behavior. The first thing every
member of Fides Quaerens Intelectum should try to do in
educating students
is always setting good examples to be adopted by learners. They
will show or give example of good behavior; the behavior that is good and that deserve
praise: behavior that is true, noble, right, pure, lovely and honorable.
(Philippians 4:8). These good behaviors are always applied through such
activities like:
1.
Always
doing good deed by giving extra care for either the inferior students or the
superior ones. When you do a good deed, make sure you know who is
benefiting from it; then what you do will not be wasted (Sirach 12:1).
2.
Always
conducting good teaching about the failure or the success. The failure will
come to you when you are lazy. Being lazy will make you poor, but
hard work will make you rich (Proverb 10:4). The students are taught to work
hard by giving extra lesson about life as well as the academic. The success
belongs to those who really want to work hard as it was written The more easily you get your wealth,
the sooner you will lose it. The harder it is too earn, the more you will have
(Proverb 12:11).
Base
on the above example, we may infer that every word uttered and every deed done
by an older man is good teaching. Everyone who receives and practices every
good teaching will have good life. It is true because the teaching of the wise
are a fountain of life; they can help you escape when you are in danger
(Proverb 12:14). The teaching of the wise will positively make you know what is
right, just, and fair. You will know what you should do. You will become wise
and your knowledge will give you pleasure (Proverb 2:9-10). Moreover, good
teaching will sharpen your insight and understanding that will protect you and
prevent you from doing the wrong thing (Proverb 2:11-12a).
The
example of good kind word, and good deed are the good teaching that help
students to grow up self patience, positive mind, hardworking,
politeness, respect for others, self control and also consideration for the
needs of others. They, then can apply themselves or attempt
to learn something from the class or to follow the rules which are set
in a learning institution like always be punctual for class, do the assignment
by themselves and not copy from other, hand in the assignments in time, and not
cheating during the test, and write all pertinent class information.
The purpose is that a student can
achieve good comprehension about life and does not rely on other people or on
excuses. Therefore, a student will build up his/her good attitude and be
willing to learn. In addition, the system of learning of Fides Quaerens
Intelectum will allow a student becomes self-motivated and hard working. The
students are facilitated not only to pay attention to the grades they are
earning and adjust their study habits in order to do better. But also the
student takes responsibility for their education by going beyond what is
necessary and accomplishing their goals of learning. Teaching about Revenge in
Holy Bible is the good example of going beyond what is necessary as it was
written if one of the occupation troops force you to care his pack for one
mile, carry it two miles (Mathew 6:41). Kindly denote the holy verse with if
when your teacher asks you to accomplish one topic, accomplish one book.
The students with good
study habit will easily go beyond what is necessary and accomplishing the goals
of learning. Because they are not taught about hardworking only but also have
been motivated to build their spirit of curiosity. The spirit of curiosity helps them to clarify
problems, ideas, and situation. By the
spirit of curiosity, students are courage to explore how the problems, ideas,
and situation could be different by actively exploring the environment, asking
appropriate questions, investigating possibilities, possessing a sense of
wonder and getting help from a others or teacher when needed. The student of
this kind will become an intelligent one. Intelligent
people are always eager and ready to learn, Proverb 18:15
The student of good curiosity is
always well-motivated and so she/he will accept the consequences of her/his
behavior and learn from them. If called upon to work in a group, he/she should
be cooperative and participate in order to be successful.
Well-motivated
students can easily build cooperation and participation in learning for good
achievement because they have good study habit. It is that they
can study and do some forms of exercise ahead. However, before commencing the
school activities; the morning devotion or holy mass is the first done activity
that considered as the early holy meal for the whole hectic day activities. The
students of Fides Quaerens Intelectum can do them well because they have good
hours of rest before the class (all students stay in dormitory).
Those
mentioned habits will positively increase waves in students’ brain to wake up and
gives them more focus and focus. They will focus to
build their dreams, to love the beauty of their dreams and focus to make the
dreams come true in their life by working hard and learning hard. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt said “Future belongs to those who believe in the
beauty of their dreams.”
However, all of us should have the same agreement that
learning in school is not without error and mistake or failure. Learning is
actually only a trial and failure is good lesson to produce exposure or experience.
You know exposure will let you learn how to bounce back from failure.
Remember, no one ever succeed without failure. Henry Ford
wrote "Failure is the opportunity to begin again more
intelligently" while Albert Einstein said Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried
anything new.
Base
on Henry Ford’s and Albert Einstein’s quotations, we may learn that trial
and failure can make you become creative; they are good to build ourselves
creative. James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) said Creative is not about
discovering new things but it is more about to create existed thing new.
How
to get advantages from failure? You are suggested to learn from http://www.1000ventures.com/business_guide/crosscuttings/failure_freedom.html
then you will find that “Failure provides
a great learning opportunity and should be viewed as a very lifeblood of
success. "If you give people freedom to innovate, the freedom to
experiment, the freedom to succeed, then you must also give them the freedom to
fail.
According to Deepak Seethi of AT&T, the
organization of tomorrow will demand mistakes and failures. It is only by
trying lots of initiatives that we can improve our chances that one of them
will be a star.”
Never stop to learn and give up to do trial and
experience failure. Because through learning you will obtain
lots of way, system, procedure, method, technique, skill and confidence needed
for the completion of your work. The way, system, procedure, method, technique,
skill and confidence are considered good knowledge.
Therefore,
if you have good knowledge, you will not afraid to do something, you will think
of a way of doing it and even you can do it without anyone help. You will experience that your learning is a
process of freeing you dependency on others for knowledge. Robert Kennedy wrote “only those who dare to
fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
Knowledge for Every Person
We
have talked too much about Education which means systematic training and instruction by which human can gain
skills and knowledge. But what is knowledge and whom is knowledge for?
According Cambridge Advanced
Learners’ Dictionary, Knowledge is an understanding of or information about a
subject which a person gets by experience or study, and which is either in a
person's mind or known by people generally.
Base on the above definition,
everyone may infer that, we need education in order to get knowledge through
systematic training and instruction. And we need knowledge to make ourselves
intellect or to have ability to understand and to think in an intelligent way,
or the ability to do these things to a high level.
This means Knowledge is necessary
and important part of Education and/or education contains many good things like
knowledge and skill. By knowledge people can have ability to understand and to think in an intelligent
way and also ability to do an activity or job well, especially because they
have learned and practiced through the process of education.
Who can receive the knowledge? Everyone
deserves right to receive knowledge. Where to receive the knowledge? Nobody
will come up into sky, or go down to the deepest seabed. Nobody will go across
the mighty ocean or come to the remotest part of the earth to receive
knowledge. God has put knowledge of intellect and knowledge of faith in the
heart of every person.
You know how? At first, God equipped
human with brain and this brain contains a power, called Mind. Human’s mind riches
of intelligence and this intelligence has reasoning power that empowers human
to learn, learn and learn to do things in intelligent way.
Why should people learn? They indeed
should learn to devote their time, energy and mind to recognize God’s knowledge,
to accept it and to work at it as the Holy Scripture wrote “A Person’s thoughts are like water in the deep well, but someone with
insight can draw them out (Proverb 20:5)”.
Thought is a power or process of
thinking that enables someone’s mind to think about something; to think about
life, humanity and universe. While thinking is the use and exercise of mind in
order to form opinions and/or to conclude something or what he/she is thinking
of. Every person is
thinking of life and how to build it. But why are some people clever and wise and the others are
stupid and foolish (cf. Proverb 14:8)? Not all people recognize their thoughts well and be able to
train and use them properly but only
someone with insight can draw them out (cf.Proverb 20:5).
Everyone
with insight can draw her/her thoughts through good education and good
education will positively give her/her mind power to begin everything in this world (Sirach 37:18b). Have
you given your Mind power to begin something for you? The formula of Conceptual
Learning of Thomas Watson, the founder of IBM below can be useful:
1. Target : Formulating the target you
should achieve in your life (to become someone and/or to achieve something at
some point in the future)
2. Method : Activate your mind to
formulate and to set up the proper method applied to achieve your target
3. Action : do a proper action in a
proper time base on the proper formulated method
The three conceptual learning of Thomas Watson are the Mind great power that has and always will be within you. By the power, you can achieve everything you have ever wanted to have, experience, or become.
The three conceptual learning of Thomas Watson are the Mind great power that has and always will be within you. By the power, you can achieve everything you have ever wanted to have, experience, or become.
The concept of Thomas Watson above can be put into the
following practices:
A. TARGET, Think of what you have in
Mind – you know what you want, for example you want to become a doctor or druggist in near future.
B. METHOD, exercise your thought to
form opinions about the benefit or value you will gain and/or what you will
give when you have become, for example a doctor or druggist and how to
accomplish what you are thinking of.
This means, you should make a set of
decisions about how to do something in the future. Or plan of how to accomplish
your goal as it was written “Planning and thought lie behind everything that is
done (Sirach 37:16).
Why should planning? Plan will help
you to make your goal happen in the way you intend by setting up priority. This
means becoming a doctor or druggist is very important and must be dealt with
before other things. The priority leads you to work in patient and passion.
You will work your goal carefully and so it will produce plenty as it was
written; “Plan carefully and you will have plenty; if you act too quickly, you
will never have enough (Proverb 21:5).
However, a well settled plan does
not warrant the success of a goal; therefore, we should come to and ask the
Lord to bless all our plans and we will be successfully in carrying them out
(Proverb 16:3). Why should we ask God for his blessing? A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
wrote God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and
personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and
develop these powers.
This means God’s blessing could
guide us to act in accordance with what we have planned as it was written “you
may make your plans, but God directs your actions” (Proverb 16:9).
C. ACTION, we know that every
person has been given a great deal of work to do. Sirach 40:1a.” In order to
execute the given great deal of work successfully, we should put a plan in a good settlement.
Therefore, after the plan is well-resettled, we should work
at it with all our hearts as though we were working for the Lord and not for
men (Colossians 3: 23).
Base on the above
three steps of concept, we can conclude that first, we should accept our goal
as a great deal of work to do from God, after that we must have passion and fall in
love with the work (goal), and then formulate plan how to work at it. We should
work
at our goal with all our hearts as though we were working for the Lord and not
for men base on what we have planned.
Finally, a success will be granted for our goal.
The granted success we will have
through our target, method and action are:
1. a good achievement (you succeeded in doing a very good and difficult
thing),
2. a complete fulfillment (you got what you want in life) and …..
3. a real joy (you got pleasure from what you have done).
When you have been successfully accomplishing the above
three steps, you then will become clever and wise. You
do not only know what you think but also you know what to do, but one who only thinks what he knows is
stupid and foolish. Proverb 14:8.
Say for example: Your goal is want to become a
doctor or a druggist, and then you may formulate your plan like the following
example: Leaving your parents for
studying in Fides Quaerens Intelectum Senior High School. You must not take
Social Sciences for your major but study physic, chemistry and biology in
Natural Science Program. After graduating Senior High School, you should enroll
to the faculty of pharmacology if you would like to become a druggist or you
should study in health and medical study program if you want to become a
doctor. If you study hard and do all activities base on what have been
programmed, you then will become a professional druggist or medical
doctor.
Likewise another profession, God, The Most High gave doctor
or druggist knowledge and skill to do their works. The knowledge and skill give
them position of importance and so Kings reward them and powerful people hold
them in high regard for knowledge and skill they possess. The druggist and the doctor are two
professions which depend on one and another as it was written “The
druggist mixes the medicines, and the doctors use them to cure diseases and
ease pain (Sirach 38:7)”.
The above descriptions give understanding that God gave
human being knowledge and skill. The knowledge and skill enable human to do
their works successfully. The harvests of their successful works are prosperity
and honor (Sirach 38: 1-8).
Knowledge
is Mandate, Motive and Goal
Now everyone has possessed the two
God-given abilities (intellect and fait), but what is the God-given abilities
for? Well, by God-given abilities of faith, now we know that God gave his knowledge to be
accepted as Mandate, to be used for building our Motive so that by that
knowledge we are made worthy for God’s Goal for our life” as explained in the
following:
1. Mandate: When we accepted God’s Knowledge
means we received mandate to worship and to serve him in the whole our life. We
worship and serve God by fearing and loving him with all our strength, mind and
hearts. We fear and love God through the means of our prayer and activities.
God’s mandate is an obligation, and in that obligation, we
have authority or right, it est.:
a. We are assigned to take charge of
the Earth and its content (Gen 1: 28b)
b. We are assigned to bring them under
our control (Gen 1: 28a) by the power God gave us (Gen 1: 26b)
c. We should be always eager and ready to learn, (Proverb 18:15) so that
we can be able to use
the knowledge to empower and enlarge our
capacity so that we are capable of doing such jobs successfully because we have
done them through a tight method like examining the evidence
so that we might “test all things” (1 Thessalonians 5:21), “test the spirits”
(1 John 4:1), and “hold fast what is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21).
2. Motive: We were given Knowledge to worship
and serve God by taking charge and controlling the Earth and its content. There
are some motives to have God’s knowledge, but the most are: to restore God’s
power in us by the power of Christ Jesus, his only beloved son (Philippians
4:13b). To be taught and guided by Holy Spirit about everything and make us
remember all that Christ has told us (John 14:25). Therefore, by the guidance
of Holy Spirit, we could be able to do the following without worry or mistake
as it was written Faith can lead you along difficult path. She will make you so
afraid that you will think you can not go on (cf. Sirach 4:17). so that we are
made right to accept God’s Obligation and Authority:
a. We confessed that Jesus Christ is
our Lord and God, we should bow down to worship and serve him only.
b. We recognized that all of us are
like sheep that were lost, each of us going his own way (Isaiah 53:6a)
c. We could examine our ways and turn
back to the Lord (Lamentations 3:40)
d. We recognized that there is nothing
in us that allows us to claim that we are capable of doing this work. The
capacity we have comes from God (2Cor 3:5)
e. We recognized that we are content
with weakness, insults, hardships, persecutions and difficulties (2Cor 12:10a).
3. Goal:
The knowledge was given to make us worthy for God own strength to worship him and the
strength to work; to work for God and to work for ourselves. We worship God and
we work for him aim at keeping our existence in his presence. When we are in
God’s presence, God’s glory will shine on us so that we will be capable of
doing even greater things. In addition, by the knowledge, we could build our
dreams and we would like to bring them to life. You know what? In our dreams
are some particular strength or beauty that empowers people to achieve future
as Anna Eleanor Roosevelt said “Future
belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
How do we bring our dream to life? Henry Ford wrote “There
is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can. As we advance in
life we learn the limits of our abilities.”
Base on the idea of Henry Ford above, we should build our
dream or target base on the strategy of SMART (specific, measurable,
attainable, realistic and time scale). This means you should make simple,
reasonable and realistic dreams as your goals for “when
dream is real, it doesn’t matter that turns the road takes. When dream is real,
the joys and possibilities are endless (cf. Nicholas Sparks in The Note
Book-Warner Books”).
However, please do stretching your goals for they will energize and push you to
work harder at meeting more difficulties targets. The result is you can achieve
more than, if you had set an easier goal as it was written, “Hard worker will
get everything he wants and will have more.”(Proverb 13:4b&11c)
Knowledge
for stretching our Goal
God gave knowledge to make us worthy
for his Goal for our life so that the goal of God will become the goals of
ours. The goals are “the power of Christ that unlocks the fullness life of
ours,” and “the power of Christ as the power of us as believer.” The power of
Christ is the capacity that God gave us to do all our works with thankful heart
(cf. 2Corinthians 3:5). This means “Faith makes you know
the truth of what you have learnt and achieved, and the truth shall free your dependency on others for knowledge (cf.
John 8:32).
Therefore, as believers, challenging
yourself by stretching those goals for they can broad your capacity. When you
set a stretch goal for yourself, you know that you may not meet it 100%, but by
coming closer, you will likely achieve an extra ordinary results. Say if you
set the goal to 125, essentially asking an extra 25% of yourself. When you
achieve 120 means, you have managed 20% more than you had set an easier goal,
as it was written, “Hard work will give you power (proverb 12:24a ) to get what
you are after or to give you a fortune (proverb 12:27b) and that power gives
you strength to face all conditions.” (Phil 4:13a).
This means that
if someone's beliefs and confidence
are strong enough, they can achieve something that is very difficult. Higher
intellectual achievement, as the goal of learning will be fully completed when
learners are confidence enough to give their notice, thought or interest (attention), energy,
time, etc. completely to practice what they have learnt.
At this step, the learners must be encouraged if there is no
stupid student or clever student but only the learners who have confidence and
love. That if you are certain of the ability within you, you are certain to
sharpen it through hard studying, and then, you love what you have (your
ability) and love what you do (hard studying), means you are having a very
strong desire to success. Loving what you do mean you have passion for your
learning. Passion is the fastest way to spur you to massive success. It is something
you love. You love the beauty of your dream. It is something you are excited
about. You are excited about the goal you have defined.
Therefore, when you have faith and love, you cannot worry to
stretch your goal although it looks impossible for others. Jack Welch, the
former legendary CEO of General Electric, urged everybody to stretch. Stretch
target energize. He wrote, “We have found that by reaching for what appears to
be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when we don not
quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have
done.” The principle of stretching the goal is simple as simple as the below
principles:
1. Create a dream that is so big that
it will keep you excited
2. Define the dream in minute detail
3. Live in the dream so that it becomes
real to you on the inside, and then…..
4. Hold on it so tightly that no one
can take it way from you
The
above 4 principles are strong enough to motivate you as student to wake up
early to study, study and study or stay up late to accomplish all the given
assignments. Robert H. Schuller wrote “I'd rather attempt to do something great
and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.”
Knowledge for Prosperity and Honor
Every person always dreams to live a
successful life in a quality that combines respect, being proud, and honesty.
They then made systematic study through observation, and experiments. The
purpose is to develop theories that can describe and answer how to achieve the
successful life. The systematic study is then conducted to search for Knowledge
through an intensive learning. The knowledge they achieved then used to stretch
their goal for the achievement of their dreams.
The true knowledge they are
searching are God’s gift as it was written “God sends knowledge and understanding like the rain to the dry
riverbeds and whoever receives it will prosper.” It was also written “God sends knowledge and understanding like
the rain, and increase the honor of those who receive her. (Sirach 1:19).”
According
to David L. Lipe, Ph.D. in Faith And Knowledge (www.ApologeticsPress.org) there are two kind of God’s gift of knowledge. The God-given
abilities of reason and rational thought (intellect) and God-given abilities of
faith (faith).
Base on the above description, it
is obvious that knowledge
(knowledge of intellect and knowledge of faith) is divine and belongs
to God. Knowledge is a holy gift that God sent and stored it in human’s mind.
God
sent and stored his knowledge in human’s mind and heart because human is God’s
temple and which His Holy Spirit lives in (1Cor 3:16). However, the sin had
been making their heart and mind like dry riverbeds. It is likewise an area of
a farmland but cannot be cultivated. The land is only full of dust and dry
grain of sands. No plants can grow on it and no living things could survive
there. However, when the rain falls, the dry riverbed becomes a running brook
and a pond is formed. Then, fresh water can be obtained and the living can
exist.
The
rain is the condensed moisture of atmosphere falling in drop of water. The
earth really hopes for this dropped water to make itself a suitable place for
the living. The rain that falls on earth is forming stream. Whatever plant
grows near will send out its roots to so it is not afraid when the hot weather
comes because its leaves stay green; it has no worries when there is no rain;
it keeps on bearing fruit (Jeremiah 17:8).
The
stream and water are important for the living of a tree to bear fruits and stay
green. On the same way, people who have good knowledge will have a
feeling of energetic interest in building good future. Every chance they have
is opportunities, which
makes them possible to do something that they want to do or have to do. It
means knowledge empowers people to grow up self-reliant and prosper. A
self-reliant and prosper person have good chance to grow wealthy. Therefore, a country's future prosperity depends to an extent,
upon the quality of education of its people.
Faith to Lead The Intellect
Fides Quaerens Intelectum
is derived from Latin term means Faith
to Lead The Intellect.
We sometimes, can learn if some people fail
to reach their height is not mainly caused by an insufficient knowledge they
have. At the other time, some other people
have a successful life but they fail to give their notice, thought or interest
(attention), energy, time, etc. completely to apply their
knowledge for good purpose.
Some people fail to reach their height
although they have good knowledge achievement because they cannot be able to identify,
to find and to sharpen their intellect; therefore they are stupid and foolish. The
intellect should be sharpened like an AX as it was written “If the ax
is dull, and you do not sharpen it, you have to work harder to use it. But wisdom brings success. Ecc 10:10
While, those who
are success to sharpen their Axes or intellect sometime cannot have good
quality of life since they
are unable to base the work of their mind on the great trust or confidence in their
heart. They are unable to base the work of their mind on good actions and
behavior, and not on what they say that they think or feel.
Therefore, we found if some people are clever
to build the world up for a better life but some others are clever to destroy
humanity so that they can control over the whole world. They cannot be able to have a life
full of equality, justice, welfare; the life that cannot make peace and love
because they could not base their work on Faith.
They fail
because they could not base their intelligent
work on Faith! Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen. Faith has an ability to use your intellect and experience to make good
decisions and judgments and this ability is called wisdom. Therefore, if you
have faith, you could be able to apply your intellect
for building good character.
Faithful people
have good quality of intellect that makes them different from another
intellectual people. People who have faith can use their intellect to generate positive
thoughts that produce respectful behavior and constructive actions. They can be able to organize the way
in which they live in; they can live in honesty and strong moral principles
that they refuse to change. They love to live in a firm unity and in good
solidarity. They always help one to another
in many ways such as supporting and encouraging each other in any situations.
They also can build good relationship with their creator, their inner heart,
other people, the society and the environment as well.
Faith
and Intellect are God-Given
Base on the name of Fides
Quaerens Intelectum, this Senior High School has concentration to educate all
students to acknowledge that every one of us has two great riches; the first
one is the reason and rational thought, called
Intellect and the second one is the believe, called Faith.
Intellect
and Faith are two God-given abilities, which can support one to another.
Intellect can empower you to have an ability to think and to understand that
you have Faith. At the same way, your Faith can give you a great trust or confidence that you
have intellect. God stored thought in our mind and faith
in our heart. Our task is trying to find them out as it was written Person’s
thoughts are like water in the deep well, but someone with insight can draw
them out (Proverb 20:5)”.
Intellect is God given ability of
mind. It is the minds capacity of
knowledge and reason. When you have faith about the intellect you have, you
will positively sharpen it through learning. When you are learning hard you
will know a lot of things.
Faith
is God given ability of strong believe and confidence. The strong believe and confidence
gives you Insight and the Insight is the
ability to have a clear, deep and sometimes sudden understanding of a
complicated problem or situation (Cambridge Dictionary for Advanced Learners). This
ability or Insight can give you capability to find and draw
(sharpen) your thoughts by learning.
You
know what? A sharpening thought can give you competences to think in an
intelligent way and understand things, especially complicated ideas easily.
Therefore, when you are faithful, you can be able to put knowledge to use in an innovative, analytical,
and practical ways. Therefore, you can do everything not in an ordinary level like the ordinary
people does but in a high level. You will be capable of doing even greater
things (John 14:12).
The
relationship of intellect and faith
We are the most perfect creation of
God since we were created to be like him or resemble him and he
gave us his own strength and insight to let us see the majesty of His creation.
(Gen 1:26-28; Sirack 17: 4&8 ).
God
gave us his own strength to do his own work through the process of mind or the
power of rational thoughts, and he also gave us his own insight to see the
majesty of His creation through the work of faith or the power of believe and
confidence.
God
Strength
The
Mind is a spot of a person’s head. It is the
power of brain function as one of the intelligence processing centers in the
body. The Mind controls thought, memory, feelings and activity through the
intelligence of intellect (IQ) and the intelligence of emotion (EQ). IQ and EQ
are two intelligences which enable a person to think, understand things and
feel emotions.
God
Insight
While the heart is the spot within human where the insight is
stored and it is the other intelligence processing center.
The Insight is the
eye of the heart or the spot of the place within a person where their feelings
or emotions are considered to come from. This means the Brain is not the only
intelligence processing center in the body and by this intelligence processing
center, we can gain knowledge to understand that we have heart. The heart is also
an intelligence processing center and by which we gain faith to believe that we
have knowledge to understand and know everything in life and universe.
Base
on the above explanation, we can understand that Knowledge is essential for the growing of our
faith and also as an important part of the faith itself. This means, in
FAITH, we commit ourselves to apply our KNOWLEDGE to do something that might be
regarded very difficult and/or impossible or uncertain”
Donah
Zohar dan Ian Marshall called the spot within a person is the Spot of God - The
room of God. The room of God is a space within a person, in which stored the
spot of truth and this spot of truth is known as Spiritual Quotient (SQ) but
Peter Sepherd named it the Heart Intelligence.
What
is Heart Intelligence? As it was quoted from http://www.metaphysics-for-life.com/heart-intelligence.html,
Heart Intelligence is a higher level of intelligence that supports physical,
mental and emotional well being. Heart Intelligence as it was quoted from The
Institute of HeartMath
is the flow of awareness, understanding and intuition we experience when the
mind and emotions are brought into coherent alignment with the heart.
-- Heart intelligence is within you and contains all the answers to your
greatest questions. Who am I? What is my purpose in life? It is a wonderful
space to hang out in and live from. Tap into your own heart and feel that
intelligence inside you. Let it expand your heart in a healing and loving way.
Be comforted by your heart and all that it is.
Base on the above quotation, we
believe that The Spiritual Quotient or Heart Intelligence is actually the
capacity of Christ (2Corinthians 3:5) that stored in our hearts. The Heart Intelligence is the higher level of
intelligence that fuels the IQ and EQ so that a person can have a quality of
being determined and able to deal with difficult and impossible situations.
Donah Zohar dan Ian Marshal clarified that whoever
is sharpening his/her Spiritual Quotient, she/he would live a life of prime
quality. The prime quality of life is fashioned by the balance and the
harmonious of life; it is the balance in applying the rational thought or
Intellectual Quotient (IQ), and the harmonious in managing the emotion
(Emotional Quotient) and the encouragement in building the faith (Spiritual
Quotient).
The
capacity or the power of Christ (Phil 4: 13c) that stored in us can work
through the power of Holy Spirit in our Heart. The power of Holy Spirit (Jude
1:20b) is the most important power which enables us to energize our mind and
heart to work more proficiently through the following Power:
a.
Christ
power of Intellectual Quotient (IQ) leads us to grow as an expert.
The Christ power of IQ enables us to
know and to excel our capability of Linguistic, Math, Logic and Reasoning. By
the Christ power of IQ, we are able to work base on logical thinking and good
planning as written: Planning and thought lie behind everything that is done” –
Sirach 37:16. This means by working in a well organized manner, applying
superior systems, procedures and detailed job descriptions, we will get easy to
accomplish our jobs. The Christ power of IQ leads us to grow as a person with a
high level of knowledge or skill (expert) who has capacity of doing something
(2Cor 3:5b) like the others do too.
b.
Christ
power of Emotional Quotient keeps ourselves in the love of God (Jude 1:21a).
The Love of Christ gives us capacity to recognize our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves and for managing emotions well in ourselves and in our relationship.
The Love of Christ gives us understanding that Emotional intelligence (EQ) describes abilities distinct from, but complementary to academic intelligence, the purely cognitive capabilities measured by Intellectual Quotient (IQ).
The Love of Christ gives us capacity to recognize our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves and for managing emotions well in ourselves and in our relationship.
The Love of Christ gives us understanding that Emotional intelligence (EQ) describes abilities distinct from, but complementary to academic intelligence, the purely cognitive capabilities measured by Intellectual Quotient (IQ).
On the other hand, the Love of
Christ will light on our emotion intelligence (EQ) to shine before our
cognitive capabilities (IQ) so that it can work not base on logical
consideration only but also empathy, self-awareness, self-responsibility, and
self-control. This means the Love of Christ makes us excel in emotional
intelligence skills so that we have the strength to face all conditions by the
power that Christ gave us (Philippians 4:13). Therefore, we will be more
proficient in doing things that are difficult for those who are book smart but
lack Emotional Intelligence skills (EQ).
c.
Christ
power of Spiritual Quotient leads you praying in the power of Holy Spirit (Jude
1:20b) -
Everybody has intention to become someone and to achieve something at some point in the future or that we called Vision. At the same time he has a feeling of expectation and desire; feeling of trust and confidence. He does not see what he hopes for (to become someone and to achieve something at some point in the future) so he will wait for it with patient (read Rome 8:25) that we called Hope.
Everybody has intention to become someone and to achieve something at some point in the future or that we called Vision. At the same time he has a feeling of expectation and desire; feeling of trust and confidence. He does not see what he hopes for (to become someone and to achieve something at some point in the future) so he will wait for it with patient (read Rome 8:25) that we called Hope.
He has a strong enthusiasm in life
to realize his vision and hope that we called Passion.
As a scholar, you must be very enthusiasm to realize your vision and hope by enlarging capacity. You can do it by acquiring knowledge, competence and skill, etc through learning and coaching.
As a scholar, you must be very enthusiasm to realize your vision and hope by enlarging capacity. You can do it by acquiring knowledge, competence and skill, etc through learning and coaching.
However, as a believer, you must
pray in the power of Holy Spirit to power your emotion so that it can harmonize
and synergize your intellectual’s work with enthusiasm. Because it is written,
enthusiasm without knowledge is not good; impatient will get you into trouble
(Proverb 19:2).
This means your enthusiasm is
useless if you do not have knowledge and your knowledge contributes nothing if
you are impatient; for impatient makes you unable to make up your minds and
undecided in all you do; therefore, you never think that you will receive
anything from the Lord. (James 1:6b,7-8)
In addition, The power of Holy
Spirit leads people who are book smart to have and to excel in Emotional
Intelligence skills and Spiritual Intelligence skills so that he can keep on
building himself up on his most sacred faith (Jude 1:20a). It is the faith that
gave him feeling of expectation and desire; feeling of trust and confidence.
Therefore, he has power to be sure
of things he hopes for and to be certain of things he cannot see (read Hebrew
11:1) that we called Faith. This means, the power of Holy Spirit brings passion
to make you more enduring, more patients and more enthusiasm to build up bigger
capacity. When you are big in capacity, you will have strong trust or unquestioning
confidence to pursue and to achieve the goals that is impossible for others. It
is that you can do greater things and you can see the majesty of God in his
creation.
The other simple way to pursue and
to achieve the goals that is impossible for others is learning first from an
extra ordinary persons. Dahlan Iksan ever said “I could become an entrepreneur because I was influenced by my employer.”
Dahlan Iskan could grow and become a successful entrepreneur person in business
and leadership because he had learnt hard from his former employer. His
employer perhaps was not an ordinary person but one is excellent in leadership and reputation.
In addition, Dahlan Iksan perhaps
could achieve greater than others could because he has good technical skill and
professional skill. Gordon Dryden & DR. Jeannette Vos suggested every
person to add to his technical skill and professional skill by learning from a
professional person.
Faith
to lead Intellect
It is common if we can find that not
all people who have sharpening thoughts are able to learn
and understand things easily. They sometimes fail to learn and fail to understand
that God is the Designer of this intricately designed Universe. Therefore, when
they can learn and do everything in intelligent way, they will grow proud of
themselves and then will be
proudly acknowledging that there is no God’s power but only the Mind power in
their lives.
Your intellect will probably mislead
you but your faith will lead you know that there is nothing in you. The
capacity (intellect) you have comes from God (2Corinthians 3:5).
Base on the above description we
find a good relationship between faith and rational thought (intellect).
Fides Quaerens Intelectum
or Faith to lead Intellect can explain the relation between the Faith and the Intellect
as it is described below:
Your intellect will let you consider,
for example, the Universe. You know that the Universe is really exists but how
could it be? There must be endless
discussions about it-many theories have been found but none can give reasonable
answer to questions of the existence of the universe. However, when you look inside into your mind,
then you will find a reason in it. Your reason, then says that it must have an
adequate antecedent cause (e.g., the Law of Cause and Effect). Your rational
thoughts will positively describe the Law of Cause and Effect easily in an
intelligent way and so many people can understand it easily, but it will not be
possible to find out its nature. However, it is your faith, and then will lead
you to understand that it is reasonable to believe that this intricately designed
Universe had a Designer.
Well,
this intricately designed Universe had a Designer but who is the designer? The
following quotation from “Apologetics Press Intermediate Christian Evidences
Correspondence Course” can give us a fully understanding of the creator of the
universe:
The Bible,
God’sWord wrote that it is God, the Almighty, the designer of this
well-designed Universe (and the complicated life it contains). The evidence
to substantiate or support the Bible’s claims of its own inspiration can be
drawn from both external and internal sources.
External
evidences for inspiration include such things as historical documentation of
biblical people, places, and events, or archaeological artifacts that
corroborate biblical statements or circumstances.
Internal
evidences are part of the actual biblical fabric itself. The Bible’s unity,
predictive prophecy, and scientific foreknowledge are unparalleled in human
history and bear testimony to the fact that the very existence of the Holy
Scriptures cannot be explained in any other way except to acknowledge that
they are the result of an overriding, superintending, guiding Mind.”
“Atheists expect us to believe that this
highly ordered, well-designed Universe (and the complicated life it contains)
“just happened.” But such a suggestion the Atheists proposed is unreasonable,
irrational. It is unsupported by the facts at hand.
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Most
of the atheists are also highly intelligence since God sent his knowledge not
only for religious people but also for all mankind. Base on the God given
knowledge, atheists got a desire to do everything by studying all things that
have been made. Many theories then conducted to explore the universe and how it
was made. Many findings have been discovered but none could be the proven of
how the universe was made.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
ever said “God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities,
great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these
powers.”
The
Atheists also have great potential strength and ability within their minds and
personalities to look at the good things around them and still fail to see the
living God. They have studied the things he made but they have not recognized
the one who made them (WoS: 13;1b-1c). because they do not have prayer . They
do not trust in the Lord with all their hearts but they always rely on what
they think they know. Cf. Proverb 3: 5. You know why? God never gives us
satisfaction of fully understanding what God does (Ecclesiastes 3: 11).
Base
on the above description it obviously clears that although we can ever learn
the will of God, Our human reason is not
adequate for the task, and our philosophies tend to mislead us, because our
mortal bodies weight our souls down. The body is temporary structure made of
earth, a burden to active soul mind. Wisdom of Solomon 9:13 – 15
Faith and intellect (reason) are
interconnected
Is faith opposed to reason? Base on the above description, we herewith can learn that
Faith and Reason (Intellect) cannot be separated but they can be a
complementary one to another. Hardly! Reason is faith’s
silent-yet-stalwart partner.
Faith
and reason are not contradicted but interconnected as it is said the Lord
expects us to use our God-given abilities of reason and rational thought to
examine the evidence so that we might “test all things” (1 Thessalonians 5:21),
“test the spirits” (1 John 4:1), and “hold fast what is good” (1 Thessalonians
5:21). In the same way the Lord expects us to use our God-given abilities of
faith to believe that God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and
personalities, great potential strength and ability. He has poured into our
hearts great powers of five talents or two talents or even only one talent. Our
tasks are receiving those talents, even only one talent with thankful heart,
and ask God in prayer to help us tap and develop those powers.
However,
those who do not have faith go off, dig hole in the ground to hide the talent
he had received.
(Matthew 25:16-25). Therefore, our faiths will help us not to think too
rational. Rationality often make people to responsible for the completion a
work which cannot give them although it is helpful for other people. In
addition, rationality often make people refuse to give up something that is
valuable to themselves but in fact it can harm another person. However, by,
faith we can believe that whatever we do is a sacrifice and every sacrifice
will bear fruits, as it was written “A grain of wheat remains no more than a
single grain unless it is dropped into the ground and dies. If it does die,
then it produces many grains.” John 12:24.
How do your reason
and rational thought
will examine how and why a sacrifice will bear fruits?
Your success is the fruit of your
hard working. Hardworking demand a devotion of time, energy, thought and money.
You must dedicate your time to study, your energy to work, your thought to make
good planning and your money to finance all your works. It means we should
sacrifice to work hard and dedicate it as a prayer as it was written being
lazy will make you poor, but hard work will make you rich. Proverb 10:4.
We should love and enjoy all we work
and be patient to complete and to wait its fruits as it was written “Work hard, don’t be lazy.
Serve the Lord with a heart full of devotion. Let your hopes keep you joyful.
Be patient in all your troubles and pray all the times” – Rome: 12:11
Faith lead Intellect for Perfection
Perfect
is the spiritual riches or values we most admire and wish to incorporate into
our hearts, for they can make us feel comfortable, secure or stimulated.
God is perfect and so he requires us
to live a life that is good and that deserve praise: things that are true,
noble, right, pure, lovely and honorable. (Philippians 4:8).
Being
complete and correct in every way seems impossible for nothing in the world is perfect. Perfect
is immortal and belongs to God, whereas human being is mortal and worldly.
Becoming perfect must be difficult because we live in a world of corrupt and
sinful people (Phil 2:15b). In addition, we content with weakness, insults,
hardships, persecutions and difficulties (2Cor 12:10a). They are the yoke and
load offered by the world and so whoever takes them must be very tired.
Through
an intensive learning people can obtained good advancement in many field like in economic
science, natural science, physic and technology. However, it is undeniable if
the intellect of human sometimes can mislead to apply such mentioned
achievement for worldly purposes say for example:
1.
The
advancement of the development of Economic Science is for developing
capitalism, which makes the rich become richer, but the poor become poorer,
instead of practicing socialism economy.
2.
The
invention in biology, physic and chemistry and medical studies can save the lives
of many people. However, some experts are enjoying to mix drugs for
recreational use (marijuana, ecstasy, and some other additive drugs), and
developing biology or chemistry weapons.
3.
The
nuclear is invented to overcome the crisis of energy and for the other
development like in medical field and agriculture field. However, certain people wish to apply nuclear
energy to make MDW (mass destruction weapon).
4.
The
development of Technical knowledge helps people to build certain vehicle like
rocket for transporting satellite, but people function it for carrying missile;
People sent satellite in to sky for spying purposes instead of for
communication and nature observation.
The
above examples of misusing science and technology let us learn that intellect
without faith will give you opportunities to build up life base on bad
reputation. You know, person with bad reputation will never be satisfied with
all he earns and achieves. His life is devoted for worldly matter (money) and
he therefore, would love to get rich (prosperity) and honor by sinfully chasing
after worldly matter (money) (Sirach 5:10 & 31:8).
In addition, Intellect without Faith
will give you opportunities to do activities of bad lust (evil). The activities
of evil (bad lust) can ruin life, humanity and the world. Therefore, take the
faith as the shield of your life and education to guard you against evil
(Sirach 4:20).
The earth is now not a world that is
available to build peace and welfare anymore for people are now striving for chasing
after money or worldly matter (cf. Sirach 31:8-9). Henry Ford wrote if money is
your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that
a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and
ability.
Base
on the above description, we should be warned to guard ourselves with
knowledge, skill and good news that were built on faith only because evil only
comes to kill and to destroy.
Closure
It is by faith we have the Intellect that God has given us authority to know, to take care and to control over the universe.
It is by faith we have the Intellect that God has given us authority to know, to take care and to control over the universe.
It is by the knowledge of Intellect we the cognitive
capabilities measured by the capacity of acquiring intelligences such as
Linguistic, Math, Logic and Reasoning. Knowledge of intellect is acquired by
studying, practice, or being taught. Knowledge of intellect give you internal
motivation to work in a well organized manner, applying superior systems and
procedures and detailed job descriptions, so that you will get easy to
accomplish your jobs.
However,
your internal motivation must be complemented with enthusiasm and passion so
that you may give to your work a touch of feeling, hearth and love; you then
will be protected and prevented from doing everything that is too mechanical,
too formal, and too protective. Knowledge of intellect must be complemented by
Enthusiasm and/or as the reverse as it was written: “Enthusiasm without
knowledge is not good; impatient will get you into trouble (Proverb 19:2).
This
means your knowledge of intellect contributes nothing if you are impatient and
your enthusiasm is useless if you do not have knowledge; for impatient makes
you unable to make up your minds and undecided in all you do; therefore, you
never think that you will receive anything from the Lord. (James 1:6b,7-8).
When
you are impatient; you are unable to make up your minds and undecided in all
you do; so that you are spending all your time for looking for nothing; you
will feel very poor. Therefore, all you gain is the knowledge that you are rich,
Ecclesiastes 5: 11b, means that knowledge make us full in desire (aspiration),
belief (principle, trust, confidence) and acceptance (recognition, approval).
Therefore, when we receiver her, she will increase the honor of ours.
It is by faith we have the
knowledge that God requires
us to live a life that is good and that deserve praise: things that are true,
noble, right, pure, lovely and honorable. (Philippians 4:8). However,
he never gives us satisfaction of fully understanding what God does (Ecclesiastes
3: 11).
Therefore,
by the knowledge of Faith, God gave of Wisdom or the ability to use our
intellect and experience to make good decisions and judgments.
Wisdom
is capabilities measured by the heart’s capacity of producing justice, courage,
patient, self-control, insight, passion and gratitude (cf. wisdom of Solomon
8:7b) and the other things that are good and that deserve praise: things that
are true, noble, right, pure, lovely and honorable. (Philippians 4:8).
Wisdom
is the capacity to recognize your own feelings and those of others, for
motivating yourself and for managing emotions well in yourself and in your
relationship.
How
wisdom work in your hearts? At first wisdom will lead you along difficult path.
She will make you so afraid that you will think you cannot go on (Sirach 4:17).
Therefore, Nothing will stand in your way if you walk wisely, and you will not
stumble when you run (Proverb 4:12).
When
wisdom is in you, you will succeed in your work for it will give you patient
and the capability of controlling yourself as it was written: “It is better to
be patient than powerful; it is better to win control over yourself than over
the whole country.” (Proverb 16:32).
Wisdom gives you patient to have success and so Benjamin Franklyn, the former USA president said: “A professional is genius in his field for he has a distinct talent that called the talent of patient. His talent of patient gives him endurance to face trials that come to his learning, patient to deal with problems calmly and patient to wait for the result without haste.
Wisdom gives you patient to have success and so Benjamin Franklyn, the former USA president said: “A professional is genius in his field for he has a distinct talent that called the talent of patient. His talent of patient gives him endurance to face trials that come to his learning, patient to deal with problems calmly and patient to wait for the result without haste.
Wisdom
gives you qualities of doing the right things (effectiveness), but not doing
the things right (efficiency) only because she provides you with insight and
understanding to protect and prevent you from doing wrong things (Proverb
2:11-12). Therefore, please get up early and find her for she will give you the
following benefits:
a. Wisdom takes care of those who look
for her; she raises them to greatness-Sirach 4:11
b. Anyone who obtains wisdom will be
greatly honored – Sirach 4:13
c. Wisdom can make your life pleasant
and lead you safely through it – Proverb 3:17
d. Wisdom offers you long life, as well
as wealth and honor – Proverb 3:16
e. So do not worry about tomorrow, it
will have enough worries of its own. There is no need to add to the troubles
each day brings”.– Mathew 6: 34
DAFTAR PUSTAKA
1. Philippine Bible Society 1982 – Good
News Bible
2. Robert Alberti & Michael Emmons
2002 – Your Perfect Right Elex Media Komputindo
3. Thomas J Stevenin, PhD 2000 – Win
Win Solution, Mengatasi Konflik di Lingkungan Kerja, Metanoia
4. AN Ubaedy & Imam Ratrioso, PSi
2005 – Refleksi Kehidupan, Elex Media Komputindo
5. Joel Osteen 2007 – Starting Your
Best Life Now, Immanuel
6. Alan Lakein 2007 – Management Waktu,
Mata Katulistiwa
7. Richard Carlson 2001 – Don’t Sweat
Small Staff At Work, Gramedia
8. Lilian Too 2001 – Inner Fengsui,
Elex Media Komputindo
9. Robert Bruce Shaw 1997 – Trust in the
Balance, Jossey Bass Inc
10. Fritz Ridenour 2002 – How to be
Christian without being Religious, Gloria Graffa
11. Jose
Luis Gonzales 2009 – Mother Teresa, In My Own Words, Kanisius
12. Faith and Knowledge—Part I - Intermediate
Christian Evidences Correspondence Course, Apologetics Press
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