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Education
From His lips the word of God came home to men’s hearts with
new power and new meaning. His teaching caused the things of
creation to stand out in new light. Upon the face of nature once more
rested gleamings of that brightness which sin had banished. In all
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the facts and experiences of life were revealed a divine lesson and the
possibility of divine companionship. Again God dwelt on earth; human
hearts became conscious of His presence; the world was encompassed
with His love. Heaven came down to men. In Christ their hearts
acknowledged Him who opened to them the science of eternity—
“Immanuel, ... God with us.”
In the Teacher sent from God, all true educational work finds its
center. Of this work today as verily as of the work He established
eighteen hundred years ago, the Saviour speaks in the words—
“I am the First and the Last, and the Living One.”
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.”
Revelation 1:17, 18
, R.V.;
21:6
, R.V.
In the presence of such a Teacher, of such opportunity for divine
education, what worse than folly is it to seek an education apart from
Him—to seek to be wise apart from Wisdom; to be true while rejecting
Truth; to seek illumination apart from the Light, and existence without
the Life; to turn from the Fountain of living waters, and hew out broken
cisterns, that can hold no water.
Behold, He is still inviting: “If any man thirst, let him come unto
Me, and drink. He that believeth on Me, as the Scripture hath said,”
out of him “shall flow rivers of living water.” “The water that I shall
give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal
life.”
John 7:37, 38
;
4:14
, R.V.
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