MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:
September 23, 2026
God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration: THE EDUCATION THAT PREPARES FOR ETERNAL LEARNING
TEXTS: “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” Isa. 55: 6, 8-9, KJV.
Paul says: “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this ONE THING I DO, forgetting those things which are behind, and REACHING FORTH which are before, I PRESS TOWARD THE MARK for the prize of the HIGH CALLING of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as BE PERFECT, be THUS MINDED: and if in any thing ye be OTHERWISE minded, God shall REVEAL even this unto you.” Phil. 3: 13-15.
We resume quoting Ellen G. White’s book, Education, pp. 19, 20 (all emphases and bracketed words provided):
Q. What is the divine Educator and Teacher’s ideal, goal, object, and standard to attain for those who claim to be God’s children?
“Higher than the human thought can reach is God’s ideal for His children. Godliness—GODLIKENESS—is the goal to be reached.
“Before the student [of God’s word in the ‘school of Christ’] is opened a path of CONTINUAL PROGRESS, he has an OBJECT to achieve, a STANDARD to attain, that includes everything that is GOOD, and PURE, and NOBLE. He will advance AS FAST and AS FAR as possible in every branch of TRUE KNOWLEDGE. But his EFFORTS will be directed to objects AS MUCH HIGHER than mere SELFISH AND TEMPORAL interests as the heavens are higher than the earth.
“He [the human teacher or instructor] who CO-OPERATES with the DIVINE PURPOSE in imparting to the youth [literally and spiritually] A KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, and molding the character into HARMONY with His, does a high and noble work.
“As he awakens a DESIRE [in his students] to reach God’s ideal, he presents AN EDUCATION THAT IS AS HIGH AS HEAVEN AND AS BROAD AS THE UNIVERSE; AN EDUCATION THAT CANNOT BE COMPLETED IN THIS LIFE, but that will be CONTINUED IN THE LIFE TO COME; an education that secures to the successful student his PASSPORT from the PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF EARTH to the higher grade, the school above.” (End extract)
To be continued next MWM, God willing. Bless all, NMF.