Zeal Without Knowledge

Peter Dubbelman
Family Life/Admin. Pastor

Hindsight definitely presents us with twenty-twenty vision. Looking over our lives most of us would readily agree that “the plans of the diligent lead to profit, just as surely as haste leads to ruin” (Pro 21.5).

Now that some of the anxious zeal of youth have passed by me; now that I have weathered some storms caused by my own haste and anxiousness; now that I have fathered children through their own anxious and zealous times. I can say that I have tasted first handed and seen also in the lives of others that “it is not good to have zeal without knowledge nor to be hasty and miss the way” (Pro 19.2).

What balanced lives we would have if we took two things to heart: living each day as if it were our last but planning each day as though our world would endure forever; resting in the understanding that the faithfulness of today will prepare us for the steps of tomorrow. May our Lord “teach us to number our days aright, that we might gain a heart of wisdom” from which we can sensibly embark upon the opportunities of each day.