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Keep Sound Wisdom and Discretion, April 15
Growing in Wisdom and Knowledge
My son, ... keep sound wisdom and discretion: so shall they be life
unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck. Then shalt thou walk in thy
way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.
Proverbs 3:21-23
As little children we are to sit at the feet of Christ, learning of Him
how to work successfully. We are to ask God for sound judgment and
for light to impart to others. There is need of knowledge that is the fruit
of experience. We should not allow a day to pass without gaining an
increase of knowledge in temporal and spiritual things. We are to plant
no stakes that we are not willing to take up and plant further on, nearer
the heights we hope to ascend. The highest education is to be found in
training the mind to advance day by day. The close of each day should
find us a day’s march nearer the overcomer’s reward. Day by day our
understanding is to ripen. Day by day we are to work out conclusions
that will bring a rich reward in this life and in the life to come. Looking
daily to Jesus, instead of to what we ourselves have done, we shall make
decided advancement in temporal as well as spiritual knowledge.
The end of all things is at hand. What we have done must not be al-
lowed to place the period to our work. The Captain of our salvation says,
“Advance. The night cometh, in which no man can work.” Constantly
we are to increase in usefulness. Our lives are always to be under the
power of Christ. Our lamps are to be kept burning brightly....
In all ages God has given human beings divine revelations, that
thus He may fulfill His purpose of unfolding gradually to the mind the
doctrines of grace. His manner of imparting the truth is illustrated by
the words, “His going forth is prepared as the morning.” He who places
himself where God can enlighten him, advances, as it were, from the
partial obscurity of dawn to the full radiance of noonday.
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