To What Pursuit...?

May 4

We know that temporal knowledge, like anything ‘of the world’ is fleeting at best. Just as fleshly love is a counterfeit of God’s love, just as Earth’s treasure is a counterfeit of Heavenly treasure, so is the knowledge of the world a counterfeit of the true wisdom that comes from the mind of God.

We may spend a lifetime pursuing the world’s imitation, only to discover upon our entry at the portals of Heaven, that we have spent ourselves in vain. A very significant question that we must, therefore, ask ourselves is, “To what pursuit should I devote myself?”

The Word tells us, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the holy is understanding,” Proverbs 9:10. We glean from this verse the reality that all true wisdom and all worthwhile knowledge begin with our reverential awe of God. Apart from that first building block to the foundation of our life, the whole of it will be unstable.

How then do we attain this wisdom and knowledge for which we seek? Jesus gave us the answer to that in John 16:13 where He said, “When HE, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on His own; He will speak only what He knows from God. He will reveal all things to you.” The Holy Spirit is sent to us by God so we will not pursue vain knowledge; rather, that we will learn godly wisdom.