Over the years I have met some very brilliant people. People who are intelligent, people with several advanced degrees, or people who can run circles around me in a debate. However, many of them seem to be unhappy, angry and/or never satisfied. Others try to find happiness in position, vocation, money, travel, sports or the acquisition of material goods. From my standpoint, they are ever learning, but never coming to know the truth. (2 Timothy 3.7)
I know another brilliant person who made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ. He was a man who had a way with words and could articulately write a defense of Christianity. But my heart breaks today, as I read his writings, nothing is said about Christ, and his lifestyle is not God honoring. Apparently, he was a learner, but he never came to truly know the truth.
And knowing the truth makes all the difference in living and in eternity. For in knowing the Truth, one comes to know Jesus. He was the one who said, “I am the Truth…no one goes to heaven except through me” (paraphrase). Are we to learn? Yes. But we must not let learning be an end in itself. We must also come to know (by experience) the Truth. – Pastor Stevens