19th Century English cleric and author Charles Caleb Colton went on to say, “He that to what he sees, adds observation, and to what he reads, reflection, is in the right road to knowledge, provided that in scrutinizing the hearts of others, he neglects not his own.”
Jesus made it unmistakably clear that the knowledge of the truth will set us free. As He put it in John 8:32, “You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” Good feelings will not free us. Ecstatic experiences will not free us. Getting “high on Jesus” will not free us. Without a knowledge of the truth, we will not be free.
Study is a specific kind of experience in which through careful attention to reality the mind is enabled to move in a certain direction. Remember, the mind will always take on an order conforming to the order upon which it concentrates.
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