Common Sense Updated

On January 8, 2017 I posted this paper on Common Sense.

“Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life: gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. To be certain of GOD means that we are uncertain to all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth.” Oswald Chambers wrote that in reference to James 4:15, “For that ye ought to say, ‘If the LORD will, we shall live, and do this, or that.’” KJV

I have said way to many times and heard many people say, “If only they had some common sense…”. The problem I have discovered is that there is no common sense or no understanding of a situation that is common to all. Every person’s perception is their own based on their experiences and knowledge, and there is nothing common or the same about it. Even multiple people having the same experience at the same time in the same place will have personally different perceptions of what they experienced and how it did or did not change them and therefore how others should act or speak.

Since there is truly no such thing as common sense how are we to view and judge our experiences and the experiences of other people? By the unchangeable Word of GOD and the indwelling immutable Spirit of GOD. Since GOD and His Word are unchanging they are the only things that we can judge our experiences on. So even though we each have a different perspective on everything based on our personal experience our judgment will be the same based on GOD and His Word.

I am adding an update to my understanding of common sense.

The sense that is common to humanity is to seek GOD. Everyone in their own way does, but many do not seek the True and Living GOD, the GOD of salvation JESUS CHRIST!

The only sense that is common to humanity is to seek their creator.

Proverbs 23:9 in NKJV says, “Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.” In the CJB (Complete Jewish Bible) it reads, “Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will only despise the common sense in your words.”

We are only speaking common sense when we are speaking about the GOD of salvation!