Getting Intelligence

Isaiah 8:18-22
(18) Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
(19) And when they say to you, "Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter," should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?
(20) To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.
(21) They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against their king and their God, and turn their faces upward.
(22) And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into thick darkness.

This could have been written today, couldn't it? It seems like so many are looking for some kind of word of wisdom, but they refuse to go to the one clear source of knowledge. While I grant that the Holy Spirit may indeed speak directly in some kind of audible way to some people, I would maintain that verse 20 is universally applicable.

God gave us His Word. It does not contain all that there is to know about God. Nothing can cover all of His wisdom and knowledge. He is infinite and our perceptions will always be finite, even when we're living with Him in glory. However, He has given us His Word and we would do well to spend time in it frequently.