The
writer of the book of Proverbs was so convinced of the necessity for spiritual preparedness that he wrote in his famous compendium of wisdom, "The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.
In
a prayer to God for his disciples Jesus said, "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
We
read in Genesis that "in the beginning" God's fiat, "Let there be light," went forth with the inevitable result that "there was light"! From then until now this same command of God has been sounding its awakening note, since enlightenment is always needed everywhere.