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God’s Patient Work of Teaching

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 20, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 47.

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God’s Patient Work of Teaching

By Augustus H. Strong

If God would reveal Himself, He must not only create and govern, but He must also educate. You can not put the knowledge of God into men's minds at a stroke. Teaching is a long process. . . . And when finite beings are also sinful beings, there is a dulness that requires line upon line, precept upon precept. . . . God is a teacher, and the teacher must condescend to dull minds, and must have endless patience with them. This was one of the griefs of Christ, the holding back what He would fain communicate because of the low intellectual and moral state of His disciples. What a tone of sorrow there is in His words: “I have many things to say unto you; but ye can not bear ‘them now.’”—Augustus H. Strong.