You have probably met someone who has a lot of schooling, but knows very little about application. You have to not only know facts, but also be able to take those facts and use them in everyday practice. It is the application of knowledge that is important, not knowledge in and of itself.
In a business class at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, the students had to interview a number of local people and write a report. One student thought the assignment was a waste of time until he spoke with a seventy-eight-year-old farmer. He asked the old man, “How much education do you have?” The farmer answered, “Six years of schoolin’ and seventy-two years of learnin’.” Now, that farmer is one well educated person. The time you stop learning is about the time that life has no meaning for you. Life is full of learning assignments.
What is true of learning in life is true of your learning in the Christian life. You are on a journey. One life lesson leads to another life lesson, each giving you more experience and insight into glorifying God more fully each day.
In Proverbs 9:9 God gives you some wise counsel into the necessity of learning throughout your earthly pilgrimage: “Give instruction to a wise man and he will be still wiser, teach a righteous man and he will increase his learning.” The key to becoming a “wise man” and a “righteous man” is to be teachable and to increase in learning. This process continues on earth until the day you meet Jesus, and then you will do that in heaven instead of on earth.
Have a zest for knowledge to make you a better person and to enable you to glorify God more. The fulfilled person is the person who continually learns; let that person be you!
