2
Timothy 3:7, “Ever
learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
In
this passage, Paul is writing to young Timothy describing the evil
which will come upon the earth in the last days. He describes all
sorts of sins and evil behavior that will captivate the human race
just before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. If we read and study
the depth of this passage with an open mind and honest heart before
God, we must declare that we are living in a time comparable to what
Paul described. Indeed we are living in the last days.
One
key factor that Paul spoke about is described in verse 7. He
prophesied of a time when mankind would be always in pursuit of
education but never able to understand Divine Truth. We are living in
an era when education has become a god. A
testament to the pursuit of education is the volume
of debt created by college students just in the last decade. “The
total amount of outstanding student loans reached an all-time high in
2019, at $1.41 trillion, according to the credit reporting agency
Experian. That's a 6% increase from 2018 and a whopping 33% spike
since 2014 when the total debt was $1.06 trillion.” All that money
spent on higher education but still unable
to understand the most simple Biblical Truths. We are living in the
last days of the Last Days.
God
is still revealing His Truth to submissive and receptive hearts! But
God has not revealed His Truth in its totality, yet! Habakkuk 2:2,
“And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and
make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the
end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it;
because it will surely come, it will not tarry.” God has a message
yet for an appointed time. Though it tarry, wait for it. At the end, it shall speak and be confirmed by Heaven!
Jesus
said that when the Spirit of Truth has come, He will lead “you into
all Truth.” Every living person can receive a greater understanding
of the person and work of God. Regardless of one’s intellectual and
academic achievement, God can still teach us a thing or two.
The
Old Testament character of Job comes to mind. When Job attempted to
state his case before God, he understood his place in creation
relative to the Creator. Job 38:8, “Or who shut up the sea with
doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 9
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a
swaddlingband for it, 10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and
set bars and doors, 11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no
further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?” I think of this
encounter as putting life in perspective. The implication to Job was,
where were you Job when God spoke all things into existence? We are
mortal men like Job. The creation of God must be subject to God. Job
40:2, “Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he
that reproveth God, let him answer it.” God is the instructor and
we are His students. God still wants to reveal His Truth to
submissive, receptive hearts!
Jesus
also stated that when the Spirit of Truth has come “he will shew
you things to come.” There is much that God would share with us if
we were in the position to receive. However, we must leave the realm
of the carnal man and walk in newness of life given in the Spirit.
Human intellect is not a proper position for Divine revelation. In a
spiritual sense, we must position ourselves to receive the
totality of God’s Truth. There is a way that seems right to man but
the end is death, Proverbs 14:12. God’s desire is to reveal His
Truth to His children but, we must go God’s way. He will guide us
on the path that we should go. All we need to do is follow Him into
His Truth!
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