The Primary Reason for Education

Have you ever sit down and wondered why we have education? Is it so we can get good jobs? Yes, but this is a secondary reason. Is it so we can better our society? Yes, but this is a secondary reason. The primary reason that we, as Christians, should support education is because it teaches people the necessary skills so they can read the Word of God for all it’s worth.

Let’s examine this for few moments. 2 Timothy 2:15 says, “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.” The fact is, is that if you don’t “rightly divide” the Word of Truth, then when it comes from your mouth, it is not the Word of Truth. A person who studies God’s Word must work hard at it. It takes diligence, sweat, immense time, and sometimes insomnia to rightly divide the Word of Truth. How can you do any of these if you’ve had no education?

Reading: If you can’t read, then how can you even begin to study God’s Word? Granted, you can listen to a tape of God’s Word, but even then the person who is reading it to you has had to have an education. Reading helps you to thoroughly study God’s Word.

Math: If you don’t understand math, then you will miss out on the magnitude of some of the great miracles of God. One example is Noah’s Ark. If we sit down and figured up the volume of the ark, and the space that the animals would take up, we would understand that there was plenty of room left over inside of the Ark after thousands of animals were on. Math helps you appreciate the perfection of God’s miracles.

Social Studies: If we don’t understand how to study other cultures, then we will miss out on what God’s Word has to say. The primary recipients of the letters of the New Testament were the churches that they were being written to. We are the secondary recipients; therefore, we must understand the culture of the time in order to understand many illustrations in the Bible. Social Studies helps you learn where to begin in your studies.

Biology: By understanding biology, we get a glimpse into the miracle of God’s creation. To think and understand how complex the human body and this world is, and to think that God just said it into being, is truly an overwhelming accomplishment. Biology helps us better appreciate the miracles of God.

English: By understanding English, we understand the punctuation and the meaning behind the Scriptures. The very translators of our English versions couldn’t have rightly translated the Word without immense studies in English, also Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic. English helps us understand the meaning of God’s Word.

The list of subjects can go on and on. The bottom line is, is that if you don’t have an education, then you can’t study the Word of God for all it’s worth. Also, if you don’t have the Holy Spirit of God, then you can’t study the Word of God for all it’s worth, for it is spiritually discerned (1 Corinthians 2:14).

I said all of this, to say this. Exalt the study of God’s Word in your homes above the meager study of secular schooling. Please don’t keep your kids from coming to church because they have to do homework. Which is more important, the Word of God that they’re being taught at the church, or the secular education that they’re receiving at school? To keep them home to do homework is to exalt the secondary reason for education over the primary one. For as much as they learn in school, they will only be a smart person who is going to hell, if they never accept God’s grace through faith alone in Christ alone. The primary reason we should support education, is so everyone can study God’s Word for all it’s worth, for it is the light that shines in this dark place (2 Peter 1:19). If people don’t understand it, then at best they are blind, for they can’t see without the Truth. I love you church.

In Him,
Bro. Jared