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We Receive the Wisdom of Eternity, May 22
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man,
and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs 9:9
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As we cherish and obey the promptings of the Spirit, our hearts are enlarged
to receive more and more of His power, and to do more and better work. Dormant
energies are aroused, and palsied faculties receive new life.
The humble worker who obediently responds to the call of God may be sure
of receiving divine assistance. To accept so great and holy a responsibility is
itself elevating to the character. It calls into action the highest mental and spiritual
powers, and strengthens and purifies the mind and heart. Through faith in the
power of God, it is wonderful how strong a weak man may become, how decided
his efforts, how prolific of great results.
He who begins with a little knowledge, in a humble way, and tells what
he knows, while seeking diligently for further knowledge, will find the whole
heavenly treasure awaiting his demand. The more he seeks to impart light, the
more light he will receive. The more one tries to explain the Word of God to
others, with a love for souls, the plainer it becomes to himself. The more we use
our knowledge and exercise our powers, the more knowledge and power we shall
have.
Every effort made for Christ will react in blessing upon ourselves. If we use
our means for His glory, He will give us more. As we seek to win others to Christ,
bearing the burden of souls in our prayers, our own hearts will throb with the
quickening influence of God’s grace; our own affections will glow with more
divine fervor; our whole Christian life will be more of a reality, more earnest,
more prayerful.
The value of man is estimated in heaven according to the capacity of the heart
to know God. This knowledge is the spring from which flows all power. God
created man that every faculty might be the faculty of the divine mind; and He is
ever seeking to bring the human mind into association with the divine. He offers
us the privilege of cooperation with Christ in revealing His grace to the world,
that we may receive increased knowledge of heavenly things.
Looking unto Jesus we obtain brighter and more distinct views of God, and
by beholding we become changed. Goodness, love for our fellow men, becomes
our natural instinct. We develop a character which is the counterpart of the divine
character. Growing into His likeness, we enlarge our capacity for knowing God.
More and more we enter into fellowship with the heavenly world, and we have
continually increasing power to receive the riches of the knowledge and wisdom
of eternity.—
Christ’s Object Lessons, 354-355
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