Higher Learning

When we graduate high school, the valedictorian usually says it's our time, we're stepping out to take on the world.  Actually, it's time to enroll into college because we haven't learned enough to get a decent job, let alone take on the world.

Graduating college, we think the world will come to our feet seeking our sage wisdom.  What actually happens is that you are lucky to land a job and you are at the bottom of the totem pole.  You discover that you have much to learn, things college may never even have addressed.  Attending graduate school only postpones that reality for a couple  of years.  In the eyes of the rest of the world, a new hire with a graduate degree is someone seldom correct but never in doubt.

The reality is that there are so many things to learn about life, work, family, finances, etc. that we are not ready to even contemplate until later in life as we begin to face them.  Time, education, opportunity and  experience are all factors in learning, and they don't all occur to the same degree just as you are getting our degree.  Wisdom, the kind of knowledge that makes you truly valuable, comes only with the passage of time and  the application of education and experience.

The point being, you haven't finished your education when you graduate high school, college and graduate school or whatever.  You are hopefully ready to begin your education that will continue for a lifetime.  And wisdom will come along the way and develop as you go.

That is not only true in secular educaton, it is equally true in spiritual or biblical training.  Reading through the Bible one time doesn't even begin to equip you.  Graduating Bible college or seminary only touches the hem of the garment of biblical knowledge.  There is a lifetime of Bible study, prayer and revelation from the Spirit ahead of you.  The process of growing in wisdom and knowledge never ends.  It must be a lifetime pursuit because you can't even hear "The Rest of The Story" until you've digested what you heard already.

Listen to what Jesus says to his early disciples: "I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.  Bu when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth..." (Jn 16:12-13).  The same is true for you and me.  How ever much you know about the Bible, spiritual or kingddom truth, there is much more to learn, which will require the Spirit to reveal to you as you go.  Keep you head in the Book, you back bowed in prayer and your hands busy in His service so thatt you are ready to receive the next installation of the Truth.  Jus' Sayn.