GAINING KNOWLEDGE

GAINING KNOWLEDGE

“And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, in order that we might know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.” 1 John 5:20

There was the Tree of Knowledge in the beginning, but he was to gain that knowledge from daily conversations with God Himself in the cool of the day (Gen. 3:8). Man is created first for the knowledge of God. (1 Cor. 2:12) Man is created secondly for communion with God. Man is created thirdly for action with God. Man is created finally for revelation of God. Man is created first for knowledge of God. There is given to man a consciousness of God which no other being has. The light of the uncreated beam is focused in the lens of a human spirit. Zophar, in the olden days, said, “Canst thou by searching find out God?” (Job 11:7), and the answer intended, and the accurate answer, is, By no means. Yet man can know God, although he cannot know Him absolutely and perfectly at this point, just as a man cannot encompass in his thinking eternity. Although eternity as a thought baffles the proud intellect of man, a man can know it. The moment in which a man knows the limitlessness of space he knows that he cannot know it; but in knowing that he cannot know it if he knows it. The moment a man encompasses in his mind the thought of unending duration he knows he cannot know all the meaning of it; but knowing that he cannot know it is to be sure of it, and so to know it. No dog thinks of eternity. No lower form of life thinks of unending space. No other created being can know God, but man is made to know Him. This is the first way in which man glorifies God, by coming to know Him. (1 John 5:20) But in the end we shall see Him as He is with eyes with perfect comprehension (1 John 3:2).