Topic of the day, conversation about "To God be the Glory!"

God's Boys will be good boys! Humble, humbling? We were conversing this morning of the benefits of various methods of education. Does any group have a handle on challenging and coaxing the minds of young people to greater endeavors without endangering their souls in the process. This is truly the question of the day. Do we let them wander in unbelief, finding truth after truth and hope that they bump into God as they wander, aimlessly? Do we train them vigorously, always pointing out the privileges of their disciplines and point them to God and make great pharissee-like people who grow knowledge, but whose pride endanger them moreso? It is truly a dilemma. Discipline is important. Humility is important and Christ has dominion and bought salvation for us, by His blood. I think that we steal precious years of relationship with God from children, by our expectation that they will bump into God on their own accord. On the other hand, we endanger them more, if the pride of place that they inherit in their faith condition, keep them from knowing the true and living God. {God resists the proud} I do see the examples of our era being the apostle Paul and Daniel. They were both men of great faith and great intellect. Sometimes, it seems that our faith impedes our study and the antithesis is also frequent. I imagine Daniel in the laboratory with some other faith filled people in the captivity in Babylon and someone asking him, why he is studying so hard. Doesn't God give knowledge through prayer and waiting upon Him? This is the frustration of faith. The scriptures show the apostle in Corinth, after redemption had already been purchased and his greatest enemies were the people of faith. God is love and God is also clearly represented in the truths that He has revealed in the natural revelation. I think that this is a great discussion for Pi day. We will discuss it more, later. It is the Christian's responsibility to be a student as well as a pray-er. God has given us minds to serve Him with as well as emotions. Humble acceptance of His ways and still avid search for how He accomplishes His will on the earth are not in isolation from eachother, but, hand in hand they guide us into "greater and greater light of God's ways" "unto the perfect day". {until we are able to see His ways more clearly}