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We see there the beginning of preaching. If we search the Jewish history we will find there is no record of this prophet or this man called, Agur. We will find by interpretation Agur means, one who has never been taught the wisdom of man.  We see already the prefiguration of the ministry of God being established in this world. Those who have not been taught the wisdom of man, or the meaning of the Scriptures through the wisdom of man. But those who trust God and trust His word, and ask themselves the questions as this man did – Who is it that has this power to ascend and descend? Who is it that has this power to take the winds in His fists and move them where He likes? Who is it that has in His power the power and the right to convert those winds into a garment of rain? Who is this man? Who is this one? More importantly -Who is His Son.

We have witnessed that. We all know the answer to that. It is the Almighty God who can take the winds of a cyclone into His fists and He can bring them where He likes and He can convert them into a garment of blessing. Who is He?  More importantly – Who is His Son?

This Agur was not speaking only to two people. Those two people’s names who are mentioned there follows the Jewish tradition that each person’s name had a meaning, and it was signifying unto us that he was speaking unto the various groups of people who lived their lives according to those names. One of those names means: “I have been very weak without God.” We are always weak without God. The despondent, those who have abandoned God in their life and are now weak, and do not know where to turn, those who are lost in the world, those who no longer trust in the Almighty God and His power. This message must go out to them. This message that there is a God who has this power and He has given us His Son who will bring perpetual life unto all of those who believe and follow Him. 

The second name that was mentioned there means: “God is with me and it turns me to be equal to God.” There are those in the world who believe that God is with them and it has turned their minds to vanity and they think they no longer need to turn to God. They no longer recognise that they are sinners. They believe that they can sin no more, and because God is with them He will continue to bless them, and it will not matter whether the others in the world are blest. We can see there that the message, this teaching or this preaching has to go to all mankind, those who are lost, and those who also believe they do not need this reconciliation to God. Where we all fit in this is an individual matter of our hearts.

Agur asked the Lord that there are two things that he required in his life before he died, and we heard those two things, and we heard the great danger that comes if we are given too many blessings and we say that they are our blessings, that we do not need God anymore, we do not need to offer unto Him our thanksgiving. If we are given too little, then it is easy for us to become a thief. If we do not become a thief, then it is easy for us to condemn God and say that – “If there is a God why is He not blessing us?” Agur asked that he be given sufficient that he be contented.

In our spiritual life we should also have that desire that we are given sufficient of the spiritual blessings through this teaching, that we are given as the Apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthians this Word of God that unto those who are saved it is the power of God. If we follow his teaching, we will find that he did not say that there was nothing else that is needed. He finished his teaching in that first chapter to the Corinthians by saying that it was just the first stepping stone to receive the righteousness of Christ, to receive the sanctification of Christ, to receive the forgiveness of Christ, to receive the resurrection of Christ, and to receive the redemption of Christ. We must not stop at the first blessing. We must avail ourselves of all of those blessings that God has given to the Church through the ministry and through the Sacraments, and we must hold fast to them.

We must place this gift of Christ within the Church as the greatest gift that mankind has ever received, and we must at all times give thanks for that and give thanks for the wonderful Grace that Christ has given unto us in the preparation of a perpetual blessing to be in the Kingdom of God with Him and then go on to eternal life. These are the blessings that we must never lose from within our midst. They are the foolishness of the preaching in the eyes of the world. But as Agur saw we must remain true to the Word of God.  We must never add anything to it or take anything away, we must stand true and firm through this gospel of salvation, this gospel of the Kingdom of God, this important message from Christ that “I am the way, the truth and the life, no man cometh to the Father but by me.”