Gold Nugget 149 - The Great Security
All knowledge tends in some degree to preserve from evil. Light makes for goodness. Both are from God, and therefore they must harmonize. Secular knowledge is morally useful. A very large proportion of the criminals in our jails can neither read nor write. Ignorant of wiser courses, they are led aside to the lowest pursuits. Sound intelligence and good information introduce men at least to the social conscience.
But the Schoolmaster is not the saviour of the world. Higher wisdom is needed to be the successful antidote to sin – that wisdom which, in the Book of Proverbs, is almost synonymous with religion – the knowledge of God and his laws, and the practical discernment of the application of this knowledge to conduct. We must know God’s will and the way of the Christian life, the beauty of holiness and how to attain it, if we are to have a good safeguard against sin. Christ, the Wisdom of God, dwelling in our hearts, is the great security against temptation.
The Pulpit Commentary, Proverbs p.44, Proverbs 2:10-11, (W. F. Adeney)
Gold Nugget 149
The Great Security
