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God’s University, March 18
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He
taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
1 Corinthians 3:19
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In their efforts to qualify themselves to be colaborers with God, men fre-
quently place themselves in such positions as will completely disqualify them
for the molding and fashioning which the Lord desires to give them. Thus they
are not found bearing, as did Moses, the divine similitude. By submitting to
God’s discipline, Moses became a sanctified channel through which the Lord
could work. He did not hesitate to change
his way
for the Lord’s way, even
though it did lead in strange paths, in untried ways....
It was not the teachings of the schools of Egypt that enabled Moses to triumph
over all his enemies, but an ever-abiding faith, an unflinching faith, a faith that
did not fail under the most trying circumstances.... Moses acted as seeing the
Invisible.
God is not seeking for men of perfect education.... The Lord wants men to
appreciate the privilege of being laborers together with God—men who will
honor Him by rendering implicit obedience to His requirements regardless of
previously inculcated theories....
Many who are seeking efficiency for the exalted work of God by perfecting
their education in the schools of men, will find that they have failed of learning
the more important lessons which the Lord would teach them. By neglecting to
submit themselves to the impressions of the Holy Spirit, by not living in obedi-
ence to all God’s requirements, their spiritual efficiency has become weakened....
By absenting themselves from the school of Christ, they have forgotten the sound
of the voice of the Teacher, and He cannot direct their course. Men may acquire
all the knowledge possible to be imparted by the human teacher; but there is still
greater wisdom required of them by God. Like Moses, they must learn meekness,
lowliness of heart, and distrust of self. Our Saviour Himself, bearing the test for
humanity, acknowledged that of Himself He could do nothing. We must also
learn that there is no strength in humanity alone. Man becomes efficient only by
becoming a partaker of the divine nature
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Fundamentals of Christian Education, 345-347
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