Jeremiah 9:23, 24
? Thus said the Lord, “Do not boast of the wise in their wisdom, nor of the strong in their strength, nor of the rich in their riches, but of anyone who boasts of this: understanding me and knowing me, for I am the Lord and I act with loyalty, justice, and justice on earth, for are these things that please me? , declares the Lord. ?
- We live in a society with so many superfluous things that people constantly wonder what is essential to man’s existence.
- Some talk about health.
- Others talk about family.
- Others talk about friends.
- All this is false.
- The most important thing.
- The most important thing.
- Is to know and understand God.
- There is nothing up there.
- Nothing next to it.
- And we cannot even say that there is something underneath.
- Because there is no way to compare God’s knowledge with anything else.
Let me clarify something (mainly because of the degradation of modern self-help preaching): knowing that God is not learning certain principles so that you have ‘the best of your life today’. Don’t you teach us yourself? Apply in our lives and succeed. Knowing God is not a way to achieve our self-centered well-being. It’s the most majestic of all goals. We were created to know God and boast of Him.
However, it is not knowledge by knowledge alone, this is not to boast in terms of correct theology, it is not just about seeking the truth, it is seeking the reality of these truths in our lives, a parrot can repeat correct words. A computer can read sermons. Truth must form strong roots that grow and bear fruit for the glory of God. It’s not just about the truth!A. W. Pink masterfully without this in his book “God’s Attributes”:
“We need more than a theoretical knowledge of God. We only really know God in our souls when we surrender to Him, when we submit to His authority, and when His precepts and commandments govern all the details of our lives.
Knowledge, pride and humility. As we read the text, we see that he tells the sage not to take pride in his wisdom, nor the strength of his strength, nor of the rich of his wealth, but why?If I spoke, wouldn’t the idiot be proud of his wisdom?It would be easy to understand since you don’t have it.
What I think the text means is this: the sage should not be proud because if his wisdom is human, then it is vanity, because God’s madness is wiser than men (1 Corinthians 1:25), yet if his wisdom comes from God. , then he has nothing to be proud of, after all, he comes from God and not from himself.
1 Corinthians 4: 7
? And if you got it, why do you brag, like you didn’t get it?
Why brag about his wisdom? Glory to which he gives wisdom to the little human spirit. There’s nothing you can brag about, nothing!
What’s more, who, sane, would claim to have counted all the stars of heaven or the sands of the sea, how much more will he boast of saying that they know everything about God?The truth is, the more you know God, the more you know that nothing or very little really knows. This text does not encourage us to boast about our knowledge of God, but about what he has revealed to us about himself.
John 3:27
“John answered and said, “A man cannot receive anything unless he is given from heaven.
He is not the kind of man who says, “All eyes are on me and I will speak of this God,” as if I were a mediator; but, yes, the man who says, “look what this great God has done in history; look what God says about himself?and recognizes that without God it is absolutely nothing, that he has understood what the knowledge of God produces in human beings. This second type of person only shows, shows and shows Christ and, according to John the Baptist, says:
John 3:30
It needs to increase and I decrease
Osseas 6: 3
“Let us know and continue to know the Lord ??