The Highest Learning

[Daily Devotional]

The Highest Learning 

     For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined
in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the
face of Jesus Christ. 2 Cor. 4:6.  

     This knowledge--the knowledge of the glory of God--is the highest class
of learning that mortals can obtain. And "we have this treasure in earthen
vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us" (2
Cor. 4:7).  

     Human fallacies are abundant and specious. Unseen agencies are at work
to make falsehood appear as truth; errors are clothed with a deceptive garb
that men may be led to accept them as essential to higher education. And
these fallacies will deceive many of our students unless they are thoroughly
guarded, and unless they are led by the Spirit of God to take the grand and
holy truths of the Word into their hearts and minds, accepting these as the
principles underlying the higher education. No instruction can exceed in
value the pure instruction of God, which comes for the enlightenment of all
who will be enlightened. . . . There can be no education higher than that
which was given by the Great Teacher.  

     There is nothing more detrimental to the soul's interest, its purity,
its true and holy conceptions of God and of sacred and eternal things than
constantly giving heed to and exalting that which is not from God. It
poisons the heart and degrades the understanding. Pure truth can be traced
to its divine Source by its elevating, refining, sanctifying influence upon
the character of the receiver.  

     At this time when every conceivable thing is being brought in to
confuse the people of God, let your spiritual eyesight be strengthened; let
your faith in the Word of God be firm. Know for yourselves that the words
and teachings of Christ, which are the words and teachings of Jehovah,
contain the highest instruction it is possible for men to gain. When any
would seek to confuse your minds, repeat to them the words of Christ, "No
man can serve two masters" (Matt. 6:24). Let the Word of the Lord stand
forth clearly and distinctly.  

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