WISDOM

Proverbs 4:7 clearly says that ‘Wisdom is the principal thing,’ this is a passage we all are familiar with and I have been familiar with it for a long time but the truth is that I get more and better understanding of that eternal truth thought after thought.
Many times we put knowledge and wisdom in the same class or even as substitutes/synonym (using them interchangeably), but alas wisdom is not in the same class with knowledge because wisdom is higher and better than knowledge. Wisdom is knowing what to do and doing it. Knowledge, on its part, is ‘just’ knowing what to do; knowledge is limited and shallow. No wonder it is now said that knowledge is not power but rather that applied knowledge is power! Knowledge is an abridged version of wisdom. Applied knowledge is wisdom.
A good scenario to drive home this point is this – a professor of finance is highly knowledgeable about finance but that does not translate to him being financially wise, after all there are many poor professors of finance.