There are types of education that are good and tend to raise income and opportunities to be selected for higher level positions within organizations for which one works. However, there are also types of education for which the cost outweighs the benefit that will be received. You never want to pursue the second type or remain stagnant in life because you never pursue education that helps broaden your understanding and skills. Yet, in pursuing the first type, you could better your comfort on earth, but lose your soul because you made education (and what it could do for you) your god throughout your life instead of putting it in its rightful place of submission to the LORD and to you to serve His will in all you do.
Progressively over the past few hundred years, many people who have pursued a lot of formal education believe they have become smarter than the LORD, and even worse, some after getting it, believe He does not exist and thus have become gods and idols unto themselves. We’re seeing the effects of this in many of the deceitful, heinous, hurtful things people are saying and doing to one another today as well as the immoral lifestyles many are living in rebellion against His moral code, and in living in a national financial house that is ready to implode because we have forsaken the LORD’s instructions for good stewardship.
As we make training, certificates, and degrees our god instead of our servant, the educational industrial complex is taking up a more unbearable amount of student’s income each year to the point that when many of them graduate they have so much debt that they are barely able to afford necessities and build wealth in the way the LORD intends for their lives. Let’s be clear, education that is not directed by the LORD for your life is not the great economic equalizer and pathway to success and fulfillment that many claim it to be. It is possible many will have more trappings in life once they obtain it, but it is not at all certain they will have peace, joy, and fulfillment as a result.
No doubt, study to show yourself approved, a worker that need not be ashamed, who rightly divides the word of truth. However, at all stages of your life ask the Holy Spirit to guide you into and through education (formal and informal) that fits the LORD’s purpose and plan for you. Having your heart and mind centered on the purpose and priority of the LORD almighty has always been and always will be essential to being truly successful and fulfilled and ensures you will reach the earthly and eternal destiny for which He truly designed you.
Please pray for this ministry and email me with any questions. May the LORD bless you richly as you follow His plan!
Proverbs 3:5-8, Jeremiah 1:4-10, Romans 12:16, Philippians 4:8-9, 2Timothy 2:15
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