Divine Wisdom

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for January 20
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Divine Wisdom

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired
are not to be compared to it. Prov. 8:11.

If Adam and Eve had never touched the forbidden tree, the Lord would
have imparted to them knowledge,-knowledge upon which rested no curse of
sin, knowledge that would have brought them everlasting joy. The only
knowledge they gained by their disobedience was a knowledge of sin and
its results....

Age after age, the curiosity of men has led them to seek for the tree of
knowledge; and often they think they are plucking fruit most essential,
when, like Solomon's research, they find it altogether vanity and
nothingness in comparison with that science of true holiness which will
open to them the gates of the city of God. The human ambition has been
seeking for that kind of knowledge that will bring to them glory and
self-exaltation and supremacy. Thus Adam and Eve were worked upon by
Satan until God's restraint was snapped asunder, and their education
under the teacher of lies began in order that they might have the
knowledge which God had refused them.

True wisdom is a treasure as lasting as eternity. Many of the world's
so-called wise men are wise only in their own estimation. Content with
the acquisition of worldly wisdom, they never enter the garden of God,
to become acquainted with the treasures of knowledge contained in His
holy Word. Supposing themselves to be wise, they are ignorant concerning
the wisdom which all must have who gain eternal life....The unlearned
man, if he knows God and Jesus Christ, has a more enduring wisdom than
has the most learned man who despises the instruction of God.

Divine wisdom is to be a lamp to your feet....Everything that can be
shaken will be shaken; but rooted and grounded in the truth, you will
abide with those things that cannot be shaken.

>From Devotional: Our Father Cares, p. 30, 31.