Ed 83
(Education 83)
“Immanuel, ... God with us.” Matthew 1:23. (Ed 83.1) MC VC
In the Teacher sent from God, all true educational work finds its center. Of this work today as verily as of the work He established eighteen hundred years ago, the Saviour speaks in the words— (Ed 83.2) MC VC
“I am the First and the Last, and the Living One.” Revelation 1:17, 18. (Ed 83.3) MC VC
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.” Revelation 21:6, R.V. (Ed 83.4) MC VC
In the presence of such a Teacher, of such opportunity for divine education, what worse than folly is it to seek an education apart from Him—to seek to be wise apart from Wisdom; to be true while rejecting Truth; to seek illumination apart from the Light, and existence without the Life; to turn from the Fountain of living waters, and hew out broken cisterns, that can hold no water. (Ed 83.5) MC VC
Behold, He is still inviting: “If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink. He that believeth on Me, as the Scripture hath said,” out of him “shall flow rivers of living water.” John 7:37, 38. R. V. “The water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life.” John 4:14, R.V. (Ed 83.6) MC VC