As we move into the 21st century, it is amazing the level of advancements being made in areas like medicine, technology, telecommunications and transportation. From that standpoint, these are wondrous times to live. At the same time there are areas within our society that give you pause for concern. One such area is a lack of the use of common sense.
Some key questions at this point: What has happened to common sense? Why do so many people seem not to have or to use this faculty? What explanation can there be that might help us see why this trend has occurred?
I believe that a major reason for this unfamiliarity with common sense relates to the drift of many years in our country to overlook and discount the value and emphasis and, most importantly, the acceptance of the Bible. Common sense is a gift from God and many of its elements are spelled out in the Bible. As a people becomes disconnected from the Scriptures, they become disconnected from the wisdom of God, much of which plays out in the basic activities of life. When we lose the foundations for common sense, we leave a vacuum that is filled with the wisdom of the world and of the natural man, leading to many of the disasters so prevalent around us.
For centuries most people read the Bible and valued the wisdom that it contains. This was true of believers and unbelievers alike. Society in general recognized the profound wisdom of the Scriptures. Sadly, over the past sixty years, we are seeing the results of a society which has discarded the need to read the Bible.
Common sense is defined in Webster's Collegiate Dictionary as: sound and prudent but often unsophisticated judgment. The world is captivated by the sophisticated but in many ways it has abandoned the sound and the prudent. If you desire to have good common sense and let it impact your life, go to the Bible and discover the treasure of wisdom within its pages.
The godly give good advice, but fools are destroyed by their lack of common sense.
--Proverbs 10:21
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