Dungan - Hermeneutics

D. R. Dungan's Hermeneutics: A Text-Book: Chapter II.
SEC. 15. THE BLESSING OF GOD IS NEEDED, AND MAY BE HAD FOR THE ASKING.--This does not
mean that knowledge is to be had by asking alone, when there are other conditions of receiving it. But it
does mean that God has promised to bless us in this respect as well as in others.
"But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not;
and it shall be given him" (James i. 5).
While the preacher then had to study to show himself approved unto God, that he might be a
workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly setting forth the word of truth, still this blessing is
promised. And all we are authorized to say about it is, that while we use the means which God has
provided for our education in divine things, it is our privilege and duty to ask that God will bless the
effort. And we have God's promise, through an apostle, that he will do so. We may not know just how
God will choose to assist us in learning his will, but his promise will certainly be kept. We may, in part,
answer our own prayers, for the very hungering and thirsting for this divine knowledge will prepare us
for a ready reception of the truth. [35]
[HATB 12-35]
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