THINK TOGETHER.
Do you like to learn new things? What do you enjoy learning about?
READ TOGETHER
Proverbs 25:2. It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.
Intelligence and the ability to learn is one of God’s greatest gifts to us. What did you say that you enjoy learning about? Is there anything that you like to study?
Solomon is explaining an important truth about our world to us in this proverbs. First of all, God conceals things. What does that mean? It means that he doesn’t just tell us everything that there is to know. Why not? Well for one thing, that would be overwhelming. But mostly he conceals thins because he wants us to search things out. He wants us to learn and use our intelligence to discover his universe for ourselves.
Think about what is in you school text books. Science book. Math book. History book. God didn’t write those books did he? Over years and years humans had to search those things out (learn them) and then write books about them. And the wise person keeps searching things out. They never stop learning.
This isn’t only true about the universe, but also about God himself. God hasn’t told us everything there is to know about himself. He conceals (hides) himself. But the good news is that he has also revealed himself to us. In nature, in the Bible, but mostly in Jesus. Jesus is God unconcealed, unhidden, the invisible made visible. It’s our job to search out Jesus. To learn all that we can about him. Why? Because the more we know Jesus the more we know God and his great love for us, and the better we know ourselves.
Because of Jesus we can know everything we need to know about God.
With Jesus we can joyfully keep learning new things all of our lives.
DO SOMETHING TOGETHER
Look at your child’s textbooks together. What is something in the book that had to be “searched out?” Is there anything in the books that you can say is new information from when you were in school – something that changed with new knowledge?
PRAY TOGETHER
Jesus, I like to learn about something but not other things. Help me to see learning as a chance to know more about you and the world you made. Amen.
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