Posted on 05/17/2021 8:03:59 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth” (Proverbs 17:24).
“Wisdom is before him that hath understanding,” right in front your face, in your Bible. In other words, wisdom comes as we spend some time in the Book: “But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach” (Romans 10:8). If you want it, it is right there! “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him” (James 1:5). Now, do we have a biblical example of how one might ask God for wisdom? Yes, we do: “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law” (Psalms 119:18).
It costs tens of thousands of dollars to go to a public state university to find out that we came from monkeys. How about we save all that money and go to the source of wisdom where all it costs is a few hours in the Book? Give those thousands of dollars to missions instead. I mean, that’s a lot of money to find out you don’t know where you came from, you don’t know what you are doing here, and you don’t know where you are going. The only thing you come out of there knowing for sure is that the government is bad, and communism is good.
That’s a lot of money to find out that you really don’t know anything and not learning anything. Well, that’s the way of the world and they really don’t know any better.
“. . . but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth,” in other words, he is looking all over the world for the answers and there it is right in front of his face. All he has to do is to ask God for it. Instead of simply asking Jesus Christ to be his Saviour, he is way out in some archaeological dig looking for the answers. He doesn’t have to “substantiate” all the historic evidences of the Bible, just take God at His Word that He preserved His Word for us in our King James Bible. All he needs is an open Bible, get down on his knees, and he’ll find more secrets than he ever could have imagined. Instead, these “fools” are “ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (II Timothy 3:7).
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