There Is Nothing for Our Children

Narrator: Chris Genthree
 •  2 min. read  •  grade level: 7
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Education and Man’s Nature
Education does not change the moral nature of man. “The flesh profiteth nothing” (John 6:6363It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. (John 6:63)). Christ is the wisdom of God (1 Cor. 1:24, 3024But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. (1 Corinthians 1:24)
30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: (1 Corinthians 1:30)). 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. 11:33,3433O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! 34For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? (Romans 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 17:23-3223For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. 24God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 25Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; 26And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; 27That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: 28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. 29Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. 30And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: 31Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. 32And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter. (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