“Knowledge shall be increased” (Daniel 12:4). Did you know that this was foretold in the Bible? The same passage also states that this shall come to pass in the time of the end. Our time, right now, must be near the time of the end.
Recently we read that “a single weekday edition of The New York Times carries more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England.”
An advertisement offers a CD-ROM computer disk containing a full, 21-volume encyclopedia with 33,000 complete entries and 2000 illustrations. A computer can scan hundreds of published works, from ancient history to telephone books. We truly live in the information age!
Facts, figures, information and misinformation pour forth in a continuous stream, bombarding our overworked minds until the simple ability to think, to judge and to make clear decisions may be lost. Sometimes in self-defense the overtaxed mind begins to erase information, like a crashing computer, and we forget. So much for knowledge.
What about wisdom? James 3:17 tells us that “the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle.” How restful it sounds! How can we get it?
“The fear [reverence] of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Psalm 111:10). We get that wisdom through “Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom” (1 Corinthians 1:30).
It is a full provision, for time and eternity, and it is ours for the asking: “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally . . . and it shall be given him” (James 1:5).
But there is no time to lose. This age of information is also the time of the end and could reach its climax at any day—even today. Then it will be too late to acquire that gentle and peaceable wisdom, too late to receive the redemption and righteousness and eternal salvation which God has offered you.
“Seek ye the Lord
while He may be found,
call ye upon Him while He is near.”
Isaiah 55:6