Thursday, September 17, 2015

Proverbs 16:16 How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver!

WE'VE GOT THE WISDOM, YES WE DO

If you know Christ as your Savior,
It's enough, though you know nothing else.
If you don't know Him as your Savior,
It's nothing, though you know everything else.

So said a believer of times past. With him we fully agree. Thanks to the gracious working of the Holy Spirit in our hearts we know and believe that, were we to attend a top-ranked secular educational institution, graduate magna cum laude with a wealth of worldly knowledge, but did not know Christ by faith as our Savior from sin, death, and hell, we would lack the one thing needful.

The world does not understand this and never will. It loves to place all its eggs into the basket of this temporary, perishing world. It lives by the foolish mantra: "He who dies with the most toys wins." But let the world believe as it wishes. We will cling in faith to the truth of Holy Scripture:

Wisdom's highest, noblest treasure, Jesus, lies concealed in Thee;
Grant that this may still the measure Of my will and actions be,
Humility there and simplicity reigning,
In paths of true wisdom my steps ever training.
Oh, if I of Christ have this knowledge divine, The fulness of heavenly wisdom is mine.
(The Lutheran Hymnal, 366:5)