Look at Isaiah
28:23-29 and discover some amazing truths:
They know
exactly what to do and when to do it. Their God is their teacher. Message
The farmer
knows just what to do, for God has given him understanding. NLT They
The Lord
Almighty is a wonderful teacher, and he gives the farmer great wisdom. NLT
How did God
teach the farmer? How did the farmer come to know exactly what to do? This
wisdom has been gained, refined and accumulated in the farming community. In
the same way there is a tremendous wisdom accumulated in the covenant community
of God’s people!
The Church
Fathers, the saints, the great missionaries, and the poets of faith, represent
a wonderful treasure of spiritual insight and wisdom that we need to make use
of if we want to be wise people! Even among contemporary believers outside of
ourselves there is great wisdom and insight!
ScandinaviaIf we are
wise we may even learn from people we strongly disagree with! Among each
community of people there is a certain wisdom and insight that we may benefit
from! We need to be readers! The born again believers in Scandinavia used to be called The READERS because they were constantly reading the Bible and other books as well!
Hopefully
we will accumulate more wisdom and insight to pass on to the next generation
than we what we were given to start with! If we are working into foreign
cultures we need the wisdom of God to reach them. If we find other believers in
these cultures we will benefit enormously if we learn from their wisdom and
insight.
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