Posted on 09/01/2022 8:39:42 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul” (Proverbs 2:10 KJV).
There are two propositions here. The first one was conditional, the “if” of verse 1, 3, 4. The second one is whenever you are ready to it . . . “when.”
“When wisdom entereth into thine heart,” not your head, but your heart. It isn’t whether you have an education or not, but, is your heart established. “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life” (Proverbs 4:23 KJV). What does that mean? Keep it right! Keep it clean! Keep it purged! Keep it centered around the Word of God! Keep it close in contact with other Christian people. You just can’t do wrong spending time in the Bible, spending time on your knees, and spending as much time in fellowship in church and with Christian people as you can. Fellowship based on truth, and not just emotional comforts.
Very few men are successful in their Christian lives that did all these things just when he felt like doing them. You just can’t do it. You need to be around Christians that are doing something for God. Even sports tell us that if you want to excel in the game, you don’t compete against people that were just as good as you—but you sought out people that were better than you—and grew from the competition. You always looked for a challenge, because they pushed beyond what you thought you could do. Even a muscle does not develop until you wear it out. You take it to it’s maximum and then you push it—and when you push it, it begins to build. It learns to adapt to what you are pushing it to do.
A Christian will rarely grow by running around with Christians that are weak, or worldly. You need to get around Christians that are strong in the Lord. That is not to say that you isolate yourself from other Christians that you can be an encouragement to grow and become stronger. Get them to come along with you and get around Christians that are winning people, Christians that are faithful and are doing something for God. Or you’ll just continue to just be. We need the challenge and we need the encouragement.
Paul said, “Be ye followers of me,” and I guarantee that if we spent time around Paul we would have been challenged.
“When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul,” you say, “Well, I would think knowledge would be pleasant.” Not always. The more you learn about this Book and the more it reveals you . . . you know, you have to get over the fact that the Bible says that “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God”, that there is none that are good, no not one, it’s also talking about you. You need to get to the point that no matter what the Bible says about you—you like it.
The Bible flat out offends some people. Some people don’t want to be preached to, they just want to be talked to. They look at their watches. They want it to be over with, so they can go home and watch some football. They are saved, they are washed in the Blood, they just haven’t found out knowledge that is pleasant to the soul. Their flesh is just too hungry. This kind of knowledge is never going to be pleasant to the flesh.
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