Education and Man’s Nature
Education does not change the moral nature of man. “The flesh profiteth nothing” (John 6:63). Christ is the wisdom of God (1 Cor. 1:24, 30). To faith, His death is the end of the first man entirely, and His life is the pattern of the new man for his walk in this world to God’s glory. May we read God’s precious revelation (the Bible), believe it, meditate upon it, and seek His grace to walk in the light and wisdom of it.
God’s Wisdom and Man’s Wisdom
God’s wisdom is perfect, because of His perfect knowledge of all things. “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been His counsellor?” (Rom. 11:33,34). Man can never discover the things that belong to revelation. This is just the theme in the book of Ecclesiastes. It shows us the extent of man’s wisdom “under the sun” apart from God’s revelation. Creation and resurrection are two things that belong to revelation. The wisdom of man could never discover either the one or the other, as we see from Acts 17:23-32.
Now the wisdom of God is not an extension of man’s wisdom, nor is it an improvement upon it. It is always the very opposite of man’s wisdom. Unless he accepts the revelation of truth found in the Word of God, man makes the world in which he lives the horizon of all his thoughts, his efforts, and his actions. His whole life is governed by these worldly motives. Now the voice of wisdom, as found in the Word, would teach us to sit at the feet of Jesus, as Mary did, and listen to the word of His mouth, that we might learn God’s wisdom.
H. E. Hayhoe