Hungry for More

1 Peter 2;2-3 Like newborn babies hungry for milk, you should want the pure teaching that feeds your spirit. With it you can grow up and be saved. You have already tasted the goodness of the Lord.

When you stand back and think about it, the investment we make in teaching our children, in imparting to them the knowledge they’ll need for rest of their lives, is stunning. In most places, that involves them going to school for 12 or 13 of their first 18 years of life.

Of course, these days the very foundations of knowledge are being challenged by artificial intelligence. How much do you really need to learn when you can have an AI app on your phone or desktop and just ask it questions as you need the answers?

Today’s world is so different to the one in which you and I grew up. I remember the local council’s library bus coming to school once a week so that we could borrow a book. And trawling through those wretched, musty Dewey decimal index cards in the university library during my tertiary studies.

Yep, the world has changed. What hasn’t changed is the sharp distinction between knowledge and wisdom. Twentieth Century American evangelist Billy Graham put it like this: “Knowledge is horizontal. Wisdom is vertical – it comes down from above.” So …

1 Peter 2;2-3 Like newborn babies hungry for milk, you should want the pure teaching that feeds your spirit. With it you can grow up and be saved. You have already tasted the goodness of the Lord.

Look, knowledge is a great thing to have. You can accumulate lots of it over the years. But it’s God’s wisdom that’ll change your life: A wisdom from above that’s pure, peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. (James 3:17)

Yearn for the sort of teaching that feeds your spirit with God’s wisdom … taste and see that the Lord is good.. With it you can grow up and be saved.

That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.