Luke 1:1-4
1 Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, 2 just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, 3 it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, 4 that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught.
Luke was praised as a great historian, who studied and laid out the gospel in an orderly fashion. How was his human ability used to produce a book in the Bible? Many understand the Bible as “a revelation from God”.
2 Tim 3:16
16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
It is apparent from Luke’s writing that he was not in such a state as John when he received the Revelations. He is in his ordinary human mind as he faithfully writes down what he knows. However, this does not diminish the fact that the value of Luke’s human scholarship, which is clearly used by God: his diligent study and reorganization of material, that he either has witnessed himself or heard directly from trustworthy first-hand witnesses, all these were used by God to provide a material for discipleship of Theophilus and any gentiles like us who loves God. Similar things can be said to the Jewish scribes of the past, who had preserved an excellent scripture that even the Lord read and Matthew used to prove that He is the Lord.
I am encouraged that the diligent study of things both in the world and in the heaven is also valued by God, whom endowed us with such an ability. It also reminds me of Leonard Euler, a godly scholar who diligently studies mathematics in a reverent and disciplined manner.
Praise the Lord for not only giving us the ability to study and put things in an orderly account, but also value and honor the works of our hands.