The human mind seeks rest, and by nature, it seeks it everywhere except in the Lord Jesus Christ. Even educated people, after conversion, are prone to look at the simplicities of the cross with too little reverence and love. They fall into the same old net that caught the Greeks—they hanker to mix philosophy with revelation!

The temptation for the refined thinker, the highly educated believer, is to drift from the simple truth of Christ crucified and to invent—as they say—a more intellectual doctrine. This led the early churches into Gnosticism and bewitched them with all manner of heresies. This is the root of all those theological movements that once swept through Germany and still ensnare certain theologians today.

Whoever you are, good reader, whatever degrees hang on your wall—if you are the Lord's, be assured of this: you will find no rest in philosophizing divinity. You may embrace this dogma of one great thinker or that dream of another profound reasoner, but what is chaff to wheat? That's what these will be to the pure Word of God!

All that reason, when best guided, can discover is but the ABC of truth, and even that lacks certainty. But in Christ Jesus? In him is treasured up all the fullness of wisdom and knowledge. All the fullness!

Every attempt by Christians to be content with systems that liberal thinkers would applaud must fail. True heirs of heaven must come back to the grandly simple reality that makes the ploughboy's eye flash with joy and gladdens the pious pauper's heart: "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners."

Jesus satisfies the most elevated intellect when he is believingly received. But apart from him? The regenerate mind discovers no rest. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge." "A good understanding have all they who do his commandments."