Business Secrets from the Bible: Spiritual Success Strategies for Financial Abundance

Secret #10

Life Isn't About What You Know—It's About Who You Are

Society has adopted the mistaken belief that knowledge can solve all problems. We are led to believe that young schoolgirls become pregnant because they lack sex education or that criminals commit crimes because they don't get a good education. The government mandates that the dangers of smoking be printed in great big letters on packs of cigarettes under the faulty notion that if people just knew the dangers of smoking, no one would smoke. When immoral doctors are charged with molesting patients, we bemoan the fact that they did not receive more continuing education courses on ethics, as if this would have prevented their evil deeds. This country has an obesity epidemic because of our failure to exercise and follow a healthy diet, but if you were to listen to the media or the Department of Health, you would think the problem is just that people don't know any better, that they don't know about nutrition and health.

On the face of it, all of these assertions and assumptions are patently false. The dangers of smoking, overeating, and lack of exercise are well documented and understood by most. These are not failures of knowledge; they are failures of behavior. They are moral failures.

Even when we have perfect knowledge of the problems that we face, that knowledge does not relieve us of the problems without our own commitment to actions that can change our situations and ourselves. Knowledge alone is not the answer ...