ACKNOWLEDGMENT
"TRUTH"
Our relationship must be guided by
Wisdom if we are to have peace. Where envy and strife are, there
is confusion and every evil work, James 3:14-16, but we
are aware of the devices of Satan, and also that as growing
babes, our understanding is limited. We must not allow Satan to
puff us up and use our limited knowledge as know -it- all -ism to
cause strife. We know in part. Therefore, there would be no need
for spiritual growth to overcome our dark ignorance if we knew
all things and understood all the mysteries. I have five talents
and maybe my capacity in this life will be only ten, but I must
be willing to hear and receive, with the understanding that I
only know in part. Yet God may have 2,000 talents worth of truth,
and I will still be 1,990 talents short when I die. With that in
mind I received and will receive from you without despising your
knowledge or being puffed up against you because my five talents
came from the first five and yours came from the middle five out
of God's 2,000. Let Wisdom reign among us by Her own words,
"The words of a wise man are heard in quiet more than the
cry of him that reigneth among fools," Ecclesiastes 9:17. I
cannot force my faith on you because God teaches in the still
small voice of His angels at our consciences. At the most I can
only say words without power. Because Satan makes Wisdom's words
hard to be perceived by puffing the hearers up in know -it- all -ism
in offense and making them unacceptable to Her through pride,
Wisdom refuses to teach because we agree with the haughty demon
of pride. Therefore, to Her wise sons who understand this
technique of Satan She wrote, "If thou be wise, thou shalt
be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest thou shalt scorn alone,"
Proverb 9:17. Getting
Wisdom is difficult because demons always teach us slanders
against the speaker before and during his speech. Wisdom
instructed Her wise sons against this demonism by stating, "He
that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and
shame to him." In this way we can tell when the demon is
speaking to our heads. Beware then of faulty judgment before
hearing every matter. Because Wisdom is desired to preside over
our services, we must obey this word to thwart demons if we want
Her acceptance, "Keep thy foot when thou goest into the
house of God and be more ready to hear, than to give the
sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil,"
Ecclesiastes 5:1.
Wisdom dwells in clean temples and is able to tell when we agree
with the demons' voice in our ears. We cannot expect Her to favor
us and teach us alms when we make ourselves a disgrace in Her
presence. She has given me this understanding that I might have
peace among my brethren that have both small and great
understanding. I do not look down on those who are not yet taught
because She has not taught them. To criticize them would be to
criticize Her for defaulting in Her job because She teaches us at
Her will and in Her own good time. And Jesus said in as much as
ye do this to the least of my brethren, you do it unto me. This
is the salt I have and the peace I expect with you. We will not
know peace except on Her terms. If I have strife in my mind, then
I know the demon is with me and not with the other fellow who has
peace, for peace is a sign of Wisdom. Wisdom shows Herself strong
through the unity of the brethren, but Satan makes himself vile
by causing division by offending our minds. Jude said, "these
speak evil of things which they know not, but what they know
naturally as brute beasts in those things they corrupt
themselves," . Demons took advantage of me in times
past and caused me to criticize certain truths, when I knew in
part, which today I now believe. You can look back too on those
days in your life when you thought you knew it all and see the
same thing demons did to you. But our change itself indicates
that we knew in part and that we have grown. MEN still know in
part, but we won't allow Satan to make us criticize what is
hidden truth as brute beasts, Psalm 49:20.