PRAYER-LEARNING
DOCTRINE
The truths
that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it
is burned into my heart by prayer.
The ultimate
test of my understanding of the scriptural teaching is the amount of time I
spend in prayer. As theology is ultimately the knowledge of God, the more
theology I know, the more it should drive me to seek to know God. Not to know
"about" Him but to know Him! The whole object of salvation is to
bring me to knowledge of God... If all my knowledge does not lead me to prayer
there is something wrong somewhere.
Martin Lloyd-Jones
John Bunyan
says that he never forgot the divinity he taught, because it was burnt into him
when he was on his knees. That is the way to learn the gospel. If you learn it
upon your knees you will never unlearn it. That which “men” teach you, men can unteach you – if I am merely convinced by reason, a better reasoner may deceive me.
If I merely hold my doctrinal opinions because they seem “to me” to be correct,
I may be led to think differently another day. But if “God” has taught them to
me – he who is himself pure truth – I have not learned amiss, but I have so
learned that I shall never unlearn, nor shall I forget.
C.H. Spurgeon