PROMOTING THE ACCURATE KNOWLEDGE THAT SAVES:

"BE FILLED with the accurate knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual discernment, in order to walk worthily of Jehovah to the end of fully pleasing Him". All Christians desires to please Jehovah, both because they love Him and because pleasing Him means everlasting life. They will therefore take this admonition to the heart. -Colossians 1:9,10

Why is accurate knowledge of the word of God so essential today?? Because it serves as a guide and a light to our path. Knowledge of God's word is indispensable to our keeping balanced and making the right decision. And what decisions we are called upon to make almost daily. Decisions affecting our ministry and eternal life, our family life, our secular occupation, our neighbors and such like. At times we are required to make sudden decisions, and unless we have fully equipped ourselves with the accurate knowledge of the will of God, Our finite mind imperfect flesh may cause us to make some very serious mistakes, harming not only our own spiritual interests but also those of our associates.

If we would promote the accurate knowledge of God's will, we must study the word of God diligently. Any serious study requires time, and so we should set aside quality time for personal study of God's word, not waiting until we have spare time to study, for such a time may never be. Buy out time for study. Take it away from watching Television, watching sports channel or reading worldly magazines. Not that these are wrong by themselves, but the amount of time spent on them must yield to the important things in life-- that of promoting the accurate knowledge that can save your life.

We must not only buy out time for study but we must also make that time count by quality study. We must concentrate, apply ourselves to the subject at hand, dismissing distracting thoughts and not letting our minds wander. As we read, lets ask ourselves such questions such as; Why is that??, why is this so?? In this way we will make sure of all things and fix firmly in our minds that which is right.

To help us remember what we have studied we must train our process of memory and recall by reviewing. After reading a paragraph endeavor to recollect its main thoughts. After completing a section of material do the same, and then upon finishing an entire article, or chapter try to recollect the theme, the highlights, the main arguements and the leading proof texts used. And as we study let us not overlook prayer. Thank God for providing this information and ask for his help in understanding and appreciating it. In all such ways we will be promoting accurate knowledge in ourselves.

Of course, in view of our ministerial commission and the command to love our neighbor as ourselves, we must also seek to promote the accurate knowledge to other people. One of the main ways is by reasoning Biblically with our neighbors on different Biblical topics and helping them understand what is the Biblical viewpoint on many subjects that may arise time to time. And you can only do that if you yourselves have that accurate knowledge of the word yourself.

So let us all be promoting this accurate knowledge in ourselves, and also in our neighbors always so that we will all walk worthily of Jehovah to the end of fully pleasing Him.