November 11: Glad Tidings.
A Source of Wisdom and Happiness.
When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you.--Proverbs 2:10, 11, NKJV
EVERY MAN HAS THE OPPORTUNITY, to a great extent, of making himself whatever he chooses to be. The blessings of the life, and also, of the immortal state, are within his reach. He may build up a character of solid worth, gaining new strength at every step. He may advance daily in knowledge and wisdom, conscious of new delights as he progresses, adding virtue to virtue, grace to grace. His faculties will improve by use; the more wisdom he gains, the greater will be his capacity for acquiring. His intelligence, knowledge, and virtue will thus develop into greater strength and more perfect symmetry.--Counsels on Diet and Food, 15.
Christ could have imparted to men knowledge that would have surpassed any previous disclosures, and put in the background every other discovery. He could have unlocked mystery after mystery, and could have concentrated around these wonderful revelations the active, earnest thought of successive generations till the close of time. But He would not spare a moment from teaching the science of salvation....
Our Saviour did not encourage any to attend the rabbinical schools of His day, for the reason that their minds would be corrupted with the continually repeated, "They say," or, "It has been said." Why, then, should we accept the unstable words of men as exalted wisdom, when a greater wisdom is at our command?--The Ministry of Healing, 448, 449.
For the Lord gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding....
Then you will understand righteousness and justice,
Equity and every good path.
When wisdom enters your heart,
And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
Discretion will preserve you;
Understanding will keep you.
--Proverbs 2:6, 9-11, NKJV
A Source of Wisdom and Happiness.
When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you.--Proverbs 2:10, 11, NKJV
EVERY MAN HAS THE OPPORTUNITY, to a great extent, of making himself whatever he chooses to be. The blessings of the life, and also, of the immortal state, are within his reach. He may build up a character of solid worth, gaining new strength at every step. He may advance daily in knowledge and wisdom, conscious of new delights as he progresses, adding virtue to virtue, grace to grace. His faculties will improve by use; the more wisdom he gains, the greater will be his capacity for acquiring. His intelligence, knowledge, and virtue will thus develop into greater strength and more perfect symmetry.--Counsels on Diet and Food, 15.
Christ could have imparted to men knowledge that would have surpassed any previous disclosures, and put in the background every other discovery. He could have unlocked mystery after mystery, and could have concentrated around these wonderful revelations the active, earnest thought of successive generations till the close of time. But He would not spare a moment from teaching the science of salvation....
Our Saviour did not encourage any to attend the rabbinical schools of His day, for the reason that their minds would be corrupted with the continually repeated, "They say," or, "It has been said." Why, then, should we accept the unstable words of men as exalted wisdom, when a greater wisdom is at our command?--The Ministry of Healing, 448, 449.
For the Lord gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding....
Then you will understand righteousness and justice,
Equity and every good path.
When wisdom enters your heart,
And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
Discretion will preserve you;
Understanding will keep you.
--Proverbs 2:6, 9-11, NKJV
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