For You Students

Here's what you've missed and need to fill in the gaps, some big gaps.

1. Love and the truth of God
2. Truth and the Word of God
3. History of money and mammon.
4. Unmasked deception in history of money, food, school, family.
5. Truth of money, food, school, family

A couple of details to begin under the idea of school:
1. words and reading, holding fast the form of sound words
2. numbers and understanding
3. see, know, consider, understand altogether

On love:
Jesus said the people of this world are wiser in their own things than are the children of light. I take this to mean in a big way that "the children of light" tend to turn the grace of God into lasciviousness when it comes to digging down into the depths of His word. They are too shallow. Too lazy, too complacent, too self-justified. Whereas the children of this world see things as a survival of the fittest and therefore strive to dig deep into a thing to understand it better. Like a chess game that must be analyzed and the children of this world work hard and long to analyze their game, but the children of light say, "I am a child of the King, He'll take care of this for me."

Well, the upshoot of this is we must begin an analysis with scripture and end with conformity to scripture. In the beginning, God.... that is the way to begin an analysis of any problem or situation. And throughout, maintain a faithful congruity with the truths of God.

Too often in too many ways the children of faith try to pawn things off on their Daddy to do for them. They use God as an excuse not to think. Others use work and self-effort as a substitute for thought and/or prayer, which by the way is another way believers fall far short.

There is an old expression stated in various ways to this effect:
There is no limit to the amount of work a man will do to avoid the effort of thought. Like a man will try a hundred different ways to unravel a snarled knot but he won't take the time to look at it, too carefully consider how it turns, and figure out what to do. But he will bravadosouly start out over and over again to conquer the problem.

We need to hearken to God and His holy word, hear it and do it. That will bring us peace and good things.