Uncommon Sense

"Common sense ain't near as common as it used to be," sings Darryl Worley in his song Keep the Change.

I have often mourned the loss of humanity's common sense.

Example: A person (not me) goes out on the 4th of July, gets deliberately drunk, goes through a sign that says "Road closed," and sets off fireworks in the middle of a National Forest.  A national forest. 

True story. It happened.

But it's not really common sense that we're lacking is it? It's wisdom. We no longer have the kind of wisdom that comes from The Divine. When we, as a society, turn from God, all the wisdom, the discernment, and the things that should be apparent to everyone aren't anymore.

Notice that it's called a sense. Wisdom is meant to be a sense. We can touch, taste, see, and hear, but we can also discern if we have wisdom. With God, we can have wisdom, and if we seek Him daily it can become as helpful to us as one of the other senses we trust so readily.

So really, it's not the common sense that we're lacking because wisdom is anything but common.
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"If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you" (James 1:5)