Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Monday September 25, 2017 |
Evening Time: 5:46 PM PST
"Who of God is made unto us wisdom." --1 Corinthians 1:30
Man's intellect seeks after rest, and by nature seeks it apart from the Lord
Jesus Christ. Men of education are apt, even when converted, to look upon the
simplicities of the cross of Christ with an eye too little reverent and loving.
They are snared in the old net in which the Grecians were taken, and have a
hankering to mix philosophy with revelation. The temptation with a man of
refined thought and high education is to depart from the simple truth of Christ
crucified, and to invent, as the term is, a more intellectual doctrine.
This led the early Christian churches into Gnosticism, and bewitched them with
all sorts of heresies. This is the root of Neology, and the other fine things
which in days gone by were so fashionable in Germany, and are now so ensnaring
to certain classes of divines. Whoever you are, good reader, and whatever your
education may be, if you be the Lord's, be assured you will find no rest in
philosophizing divinity. You may receive this dogma of one great thinker, or
that dream of another profound reasoner, but what the chaff is to the wheat,
that will these be to the pure word of God. All that reason, when best guided,
can find out is but the A B C of truth, and even that lacks certainty, while in
Christ Jesus there is treasured up all the fulness of wisdom and knowledge. All
attempts on the part of Christians to be content with systems such as Unitarian
and Broad-church thinkers would approve of, must fail; true heirs of heaven must
come back to the grandly simple reality which makes the ploughboy's eye flash
with joy, and glads the pious pauper's heart--"Jesus Christ came into the world
to save sinners." Jesus satisfies the most elevated intellect when He is
believingly received, but apart from Him the mind of the regenerate discovers no
rest. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge." "A good
understanding have all they that do His commandments."
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