Seeking Knowledge

I am desirous to go on carefully, with unshod feet, in inquiring into Scripture. The increase of light and knowledge among us may be turned of Satan to much mischief, if we do not, in the holy power of the Spirit, use it skillfully, and bear it about with us humbly. All knowledge should be gathered in the sanctuary, in communion, or else it will not be acquired in the divine way. The manna which fed the camp was conveyed to the camp in a vessel of God’s providing―the dew bore the manna from heaven to earth. (Ex. 16) The vessel, as well as the contents, were both of divine appointment. And so with us: our food is to come to us according to the divine order; knowledge is to be gathered out of the proper vessel, and, I judge, that is communion with the Lord. If my intellect merely take up knowledge it is not the dew bringing the manna, but the food of the camp has contracted some soil from the earth. I desire much to remember this lesson; and oh! to know a little of the power of what we have already, rather than to attain more!
The blessed forgetfulness of self is of great esteem in the sight of our Lord and Master.