[Songs in the Night - August 18]
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. II Peter 3:17
ALL who seek to teach the divine plan to others are
exposed to peculiar temptations, so that the honor of
serving the Lord and his people demands a correspondingly
larger measure of the graces of the Holy Spirit,
as well as of knowledge.
The tendency of knowledge,
the apostle points out, is merely to puff up, make vain
and conceited, and to become a temptation of the
Adversary, to draw away followers after them.
(Acts 20:30) Whoever therefore would be an instructor of
others, a mouthpiece of the Lord should cultivate all
the various graces of the Holy Spirit, including meekness;
that these combined (love) with knowledge, may
build up himself as well as build up those to whom he
ministers.
"Knowledge (alone) puffeth up, but love
buildeth up." Z'97-277 R2219:5 (Hymn 200)