Love and Knowledge

I have been reading though Proverbs lately and I've been reflecting on how my life would have been different in certain situations had I followed the wisdom provided. And through this I have discovered a very interesting contrast between seeking wisdom and sin.

A main theme in Proverbs is that either a person is seeking wisdom and therefore God or is a fool seeking the wicked desires of his heart (Proverbs 1:20-33). Solomon even goes so far as to as to say that seeking wisdom delivers one from evil (Proverbs 2). This seems to reveal what sin truly is and what it truly does. It calls what is good evil and what is evil good. It distorts wisdom, it flips the truth.

So in order to resist temptation and fight against the dangers of the world and the evil desires of our heart one must seek after the wisdom of God. Either a person is doing this with his life or he is seeking the world. Wisdom is the opposite of evil! This is an incredible concept! One's aim, therefore, should be to learn about God in order to combat sin in his life. This is why knowing God and never being satisfied with one's current state of knowledge is so important. If someone stops desiring knowledge of God, he automatically starts desiring evil.

But let us take this a step further. Charles Spurgeon, in his book The Saint and His Saviour, says,"...that to know Christ is to love him. It is impossible to have a vision of his face, to behold his person, or understand his offices, without feeling our souls warmed towards him." So how do we attain the wisdom and knowledge of God? We love him!

Boredom & Relationships

I wanted to make a new post today but I didn't know what to write about so I decided to write about my current state of mind. I'm so bored right now! The interesting thing is where I'm going to escape this boredom.

I'm desperately trying to organize something with friends (unsuccessfully though since no one is free on a Monday night). Why do I turn to my friends? Because I never get bored of them! Well, my genuine friends at least. I don't feel like watching television, I don't feel like playing video games, I don't feel like reading and the list goes on and on. I just want to hang out with friends.

It seems to me like real relationships never get boring. This is why you have people who can spend weekend after weekend with each other for years and yet they never get sick of it. The same goes for family, I've been around my family for over eighteen years and I'm still not bored of them! Sure, we need "our space" every now and then but that's because of our sinful nature.

This concept can also be seen in the most important part of my life: my relationship with God. I may drift away from God now and then, but I could never get bored of him. And for some reason He never gets bored of us, our constant sinfulness and predictability. Psalm 86, Lamentations 3:22 - 24, Matthew 6:25 - 34 and 1 John 1:9 make this very clear. These passages about steadfast love, mercy and forgiveness that never run out show us that God never gets bored of His people!

So how should this affect us? Let us not put all of our time and energy into pointless, inanimate stuff. We must work on relationships! We must live sacrificially for each other and in doing that we will be glorifying God, thus building up our most important and largest relationship. Let us treasure other people above ourselves, when we're bored, let us serve our friends and family and the Lord! For Christ came to earth in order to serve us and His father, not to be served by worldly things (Matthew 20: 25)!