SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/16/2019
10:21 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 “Intro.
To Walking in Wisdom”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ephesians
5:15-17
Message of the verses: “15 Therefore be
careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, 16 making the most of your
time, because the days are evil. 17 So then do not be foolish, but understand
what the will of the Lord is.”
We
have been talking about fools in our last SD, and will continue to do in this
SD as well, and then begin to talk about wisdom afterwards.
One
may wonder why a person who is unregenerate is a fool, and the answer is that
he denies God by belief and also by his practice. An unregenerate person makes himself out to
be his own god, and therefore he thinks that he does not have any need for the
One True God. This person will then give
his own foolishness to his children and his friends.
Proverbs
1:29-32 “29 Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the
LORD. 30 “They would not accept my counsel, They spurned all my reproof. 31 “So
they shall eat of the fruit of their own way And be satiated with their own
devices. 32 “For the waywardness of the naive will kill them, And the
complacency of fools will destroy them.”
John
MacArthur writes “The knowledge that the ungodly person hates is not practical,
factual knowledge. On the contrary, he
prides himself in how much he knows.
Someone has estimated that, if all of man’s accumulated knowledge from
the beginning of recorded history to 1845 were represented by one inch, what he
learned from 1845 until 1945 would amount to three inches and what he learned
from 1945-1975 would represent the height of the Washington Monument! Since then it has probably doubled. Few people, however, would argue that the incredible
leap in scientific, technological, and other such knowledge has been paralleled
by a corresponding leap in common sense wisdom, not to mention spiritual and
moral wisdom. If anything, man’s
understanding of what he is and doing and what he is doing it seems to decrease
as his practical knowledge increases.
The more learned he becomes in that superficial kind of knowledge, the
less need he sees for the knowledge that comes only from God.”
In
preparation for my Sunday School class for this week from Revelation chapter 22
I ran into some things that were disturbing to me, and I believe that they
pretty much go along with what we see in the statistics from the above
paragraph. The problem, or at least one
of the problems that is going on in our Christian churches is that many,
perhaps most believers, do not think about heaven much anymore, and as you correlate
the increase of learning, especially technology you will then see that as it
grew the study and learning about heaven decreased as rapidly as learning
increased. I suppose you could say that
this is foolishness.
The verse that goes along with our last
quotation is from 1 Peter 5:5b-6: “Be
clothed with humility, for ‘God resists the proud, but gives grace to the
humble.’ Therefore humble yourselves
under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time.”
6/16/2019 10:45 PM
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