Who am I looking to for learning and growing?
“19So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,” – Ephesians 2:19-20 (ESV)
Who better to learn from than those that are the most knowing? My wife, being a history teacher, stresses that we learn from the past. And writer/philosopher George Santayana is credited with saying, “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.”
We have a choice as to where we get our knowledge. When I am looking to learn something, I take the time to get get it from those that “know” and not just someplace it happens to be written (like the internet). While where it is written is a good place to get information and/or a great place to start, the depth of true knowledge will come from those that have been tested and have experienced for a length of time. And that is where those apostles, prophets, and Jesus come in as declared by Paul.
I have to remember to look to God’s Word as my history and where all of the knowledge is found. Learn the wisdom of Solomon, the contentment of Paul, and the actions of Peter. Learn from the foundation that has been there all along.
When you are looking for knowledge, where do you turn? And, are you just finding the information and leaving it at that, or digging in to gain the knowledge? Are you learning from the foundation?
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