Food for Thought?

 

‘COMMON SENSE’ –  what is it?  Can it be food for thought?

There are many people who do not know the answer to this question. Why? Because people think knowledge only comes from what they have been taught in school. I went to school with people who became perennial students in college after they graduated from high school. They never depended on their own sense (common sense) to help them solve problems or guide them through life. They thought that the only way they could do that was by book knowledge…of which they could never get enough of.

The good news….

Common sense started with our creator. It was given to us along with our freedom to choose. If people would not let other entities control their lives and way of thinking, or as it is in today’s world, let things like socialism become the life style they live – which started with a needle prick, everyone in the world could get back to living the life God meant for us to live.

Common sense is being able to recognize the difference between right/wrong, God/Adversary, good/evil – why did God teach us this? The Bible is a whole book of answers and reasons why.

An example of common sense to me is a saying my mother used to use – regarding the difference between hearing and listening. Hearing – like my mother used to say “is listening but letting what you hear go in one ear and out the other.” In other words you hear what is being said but your mind is on other things and you are paying no real attention to what is being said.  Listening, on the other hand is hearing, comprehending what is being said, and then acting upon it using common sense.

Today people hear only what they want to hear and act with complacency. When listening one comprehends, studies out in their mind what is heard, and then applies that knowledge (hopefully using common sense) to solve problems or issues in the best way possible according to their ability to do so.

Common sense can lead to questioning. Questioning is often used to test a  lack of knowledge regarding something. It can be doubt or disputable, open for discussion. The resolution is in finding the answer which involves study, research and reasoning out in the mind, prayer, and then using common sense to act upon the thing in question. Never leave God out of the equation.

Would we be living in a better world today if those in leadership positions in our past had used, and those in the present would use ‘common sense’ to solve political issues, like the founding fathers of our nation did? In my opinion the answer is a resounding YES!

In biblical times, children often became kings of countries at very young ages. Was that Godly common sense?  Youth, during the 1700 and 1800’s often became leaders, scholars, teachers, government leaders, presidents, etc. at very young ages. Many went to and graduated from well known universities and colleges between 12-16 years of age.  Many spoke multiple languages by the age of 5+. As well, many without a college education, but being blessed by God, performed those same tasks. How was this possible  you say – common sense. 

When God was taken out of the equation and man decided he knew more than God, the above statistics changed drastically. Youth were to be seen and not heard. Youth became controlled by men who had exalted themselves, and success has become measured by knowledge only thought to be obtained in an elite university and at an older age.

Why have we in our generation let this happen to us? Are we not a God fearing, God respecting, God loving generation of people? Why do we not rely on common sense to lead us through life?

Why do we think, in today’s age, that only the Harvard Graduate, the elite, the wealthy, are the only folks qualified to lead the nations worldwide?

Let’s put God fearing folks back in charge of our nation! Let’s put God back into our individual lives!  Let us exercise our God given freedom, using common sense, to make decisions that we know we will have to live with for the rest of our lives!

I regret that it has taken me so long, as I am sure it has taken many of you, a lifetime to understand the importance of COMMON SENSE.

Another short blog, but for many I hope it is good FOOD FOR THOUGHT!

GOD BLESS AMERICA, THE WORLD, AND EVERYONE IN IT!!!