Learn and Obey

For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. - 2 Timothy 3:7

Paul, in his final instructions to Timothy, revealed some thoughts concerning his own personal view of the imminent return of Christ. Two thousand years later, we continue to look for the return of our Savior and we find Paul's words ringing in our ears.

Someone once said that the American church contains some of the best trained Christians in the world. I would tend to agree. The wealth of material available to those within the confines of our culture is astounding. Yet in spite of all the education and improved methods, our worldwide influence has not grown. Could it be that we have become addicted to "learning, but never able to come to a knowledge of truth?" Are we too willing to avoid the real work of taking the gospel to a lost world? Are we substituting "activity" for action? Are we just too busy "packing" to go?

In all our "learning," may we come to the knowledge of God's truth and having arrived, obey!

Learning, n. - The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. - Ambrose Bierce