Thought that this one was too good not to share. It makes us ignorant uneducated people
feel a little less ignorant.
Terry
I N F I N I T E S U P P L Y
Sunday, September 26, 2004
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Hi Terry,
Today's meditation is taken from:
THE HIDDEN WISDOM by Chip Brogden
http://www.watchman.net/articles/wisdom.html
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"If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God" (I Corinthians 3:18,19).
Man places a high value on education, instruction, learning, and knowledge.
Perhaps these things have their place, but in spiritual matters they mean nothing. Indeed, when the Spirit of the Lord begins to give us the Hidden
Wisdom, we find it is contrary to the wisdom of this world. In order to see as He sees we must be willing to embrace the unknown and the unfamiliar.
Paul warns that in the last days perilous times will come. He tells us of a
sort of people who are "ever learning, and never able to come to the
full-knowledge (epignosis) of Truth" (II Timothy 3:7). There is no lack of instruction and learning, no lack of Bible teachers and Bible studies,
but there is a lack of experiential Truth. That is, people have truth as a "thing" instead of Truth as a Man. This demonstrates that an accumulation
of knowledge does not guarantee an apprehension of Truth. The Bereans and the Pharisees both searched the Scriptures, but the Pharisees had a doctrine
while the Bereans had a Man (compare Acts 17:10-12 with John 5:38-40). The difference is incalculable.
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