Knowledge: the fifth gift of the Holy Spirit. Do you own this gift?

An Old Testament passage from the book of Isaiah (11: 2-3) lists seven gifts that are believed to have been bestowed on Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit: wisdom, understanding, counsel, power, knowledge, fear. For Christians, these gifts thought they were their own as believers and followers of Christ's example.

The context of this step is as follows:

A shot will come out of Jesse's stump;
from its roots a branch will bear fruit.
The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him
the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the Spirit of advice and power,
the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord,
and delight in the fear of the Lord.
You may notice that the seven gifts include repeating the last gift: fear. Scholars suggest that repetition reflects preference for the symbolic use of the number seven in Christian literature, as we see in the seven petitions of the Lord's prayer, the seven deadly sins and the seven virtues. To distinguish between two gifts which are both called fear, the sixth gift is sometimes described as "pity" or "reverence", while the seventh is described as "wonder and awe".

Knowledge: the fifth gift of the Holy Spirit and the perfection of faith
How wisdom (the first gift) knowledge (the fifth gift) perfects the theological virtue of faith. The goals of knowledge and wisdom are different, however. While wisdom helps us to penetrate divine truth and prepares us to judge all things according to that truth, knowledge gives us that ability to judge. As p. John A. Hardon, SJ, writes in his modern Catholic dictionary, "The object of this gift is the whole spectrum of things created to the extent that they lead to God."

Another way to articulate this distinction is to think of wisdom as the desire to know the will of God, while knowledge is the true faculty with which these things are known. In a Christian sense, however, knowledge is not only the mere collection of facts, but also the ability to choose the correct path.

The application of knowledge
From the Christian point of view, knowledge allows us to see the circumstances of our life as God sees them, albeit in a more limited way, since we are forced by our human nature. Through the exercise of knowledge, we can ascertain God's purpose in our life and His reason for placing ourselves in our particular circumstances. As Father Hardon observes, knowledge is sometimes called "the science of the saints", because "it allows those who have the gift to discern easily and effectively between the impulses of temptation and the inspirations of grace". By judging all things in the light of divine truth, we can more easily distinguish between God's promptings and the devil's cunning cunning. Knowledge is what makes it possible to distinguish between good and evil and choose our actions accordingly.