“Call to me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things which you do not know.” Jeremiah 33:3
God’s Higher Education Plan

Call – Today’s post-modern culture ignores the most important part of education.  Once God is removed from the system, education takes on a completely different objective.  The goal is no longer instruction in righteousness.  It is accumulation of information in an effort to control our destinies.  Jesus would say, “What does it profit a man to know everything there is to know about the world and never discover what God is telling him?”  We have learned everything about life except God’s answer.  In our world, we rely on accumulated uselessness.  We are the world’s smartest fools.

The purpose of life is preparation for eternity.  If my educational plan does not include instruction that makes a difference after death, then I have wasted my efforts.  My Ph.D. won’t matter in heaven, but the character of my submission to His authority certainly will.

God has designed the world so that I will not know the significance of my life until after I die.  If my education plan constantly strives for significance in this world, I am deluded.  I have to look over the horizon to see what life is really all about.

Qara’, the root word for “call, name, summon, invite, and declare”, is the first step in true education.  But it has an undertone that should not be missed.  Qara’ is often associated with sovereignty.  To call is to establish a relationship of ranked order.  The caller acknowledges the superiority of the one being called.  I don’t ask for an answer from someone who knows less than I do.  So, when I call on God, I am really acknowledging that He is my authority.  I invite Him to give me instruction with the assumption that I am already committed to carrying it out.  That’s why I call on the name of the Lord.  I intend to do what He says.

Is that your education plan?  Do you ask God questions fully committed to do what He says?  Or are you simply seeking a bit of heavenly advice that you will consider along with your own views?  God doesn’t bother with that foolishness.  How many times have you gone to God asking for validation of what you already decided or wanted?  Is that submission?  God is not interested in rubber-stamping your desires.

God answers when we call.  He doesn’t answer when we ring Him up for advice.