“But regarding anything beyond this, dear friend, go easy. There’s no end to the publishing of books, and constant study wears you out so you’re no good for anything else. The last and final word is this: Fear God. Do what he tells you.”
Does this not bring to mind the verse, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge”? It is the beginning, and it is a solid foundation for all the other knowledge that is to be gained over the course of one’s lifetime. And in this verse of the day, the author, King Solomon, takes it one step further to say there’s only so much knowledge to be had because there’s no end to it. But every so often, it would do us well to pause and take stock of what we’ve learned and what we must do with it. Listening to that “small still voice” that is God’s would be one of the smarter things that we would want to do.
