Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. Psalm 139:6 niv
Knowledge is a wonderful thing isn’t it. Knowledge is something we seem to be willing to sacrifice much to gain the fountain of all wisdom, including our time, money and relationships.
In the minds of many there seems to be an underlying belief within ‘the pursuit of knowledge leads to great power’. It is certainly part of the dog-eat-dog worldview of many companies instead of Spiderman’s famous quote ‘with great power comes great responsibility’ much of our worldview seems to live out ‘with great knowledge comes great power’ which we use against each other.
We can have many ideas of what we believe or what we think however it is in how we live life that speaks volumes of what our true heart’s desires are and who we aim to benefit.
You may be surprised that we, as humanity, have limits to our knowledge; we only know because we learn.
Our education system seems to be driven by the ethic/belief that all people can have the same success in life, the deciding factor being the quality of our education. In practice, from what I have observed, we are all different in our ability to access learning and for many of us there are many other obstacles to our ability to live what we learn.
Education isn’t the complete answer to a child’s ability to progress in life I truly believe it’s more about our response to what we see around us; our pursuit of learning should stem from curiosity, as it is the satisfaction of this curiosity that allows a person, no matter who they are, to thrive. When we become convinced that there is a greater purpose in our learning, then we become excited about the world around us and become curious to learn.
If we want our children to thrive at school, we need to focus on the wonder of discovering something we don’t know. This isn’t the pursuit of knowledge but the curiosity of learning.
I remember as a child we would learn how to identify trees by their leaves, which left me amazed by the world around me, and I grew up with a desire to know more. However, the pursuit of knowledge, of passing exams, usurps this desire and, in many cases, it can destroy it.
Tragically, many of our schools are producing children who can’t wait to stop learning
I wonder how many future explorers we have put off by killing their sense of curiosity, by creating an education system of performance rather than include the experience of the joy of learning.
I love learning and I love teaching children the joy of learning. Because we were created to learn, we were created to be curious so that we can discover the unknown, but more than that so we can be led to the Creator of all.
Wonderfully the Creator of all is all knowing and in his Omniscience he makes it possible for us to known him.
How amazing is that? I wonder if you had the power of all knowledge what would you use it for? God uses it to make himself known to us.
God is all knowing because he is knowledge, he is the source of all knowledge, he never learns only teaches. We on the other hand can only teach once we have learned.
The beautiful Psalm of King David ‘such knowledge (God’s knowledge of his creation) is too wonderful for me’ expresses the awe and wonder we should have when considering God and his omniscience. God teaches us that this pursuit of knowledge is too lofty for us to attain – the introduction of sin into the world was the moment humanity thought they could out know God, that by knowing everything then we can live independently of God. This is what led to the destruction of humanity.
There are limits to our knowledge because we are sinful at heart, we want what we want when we want it – it is this pursuit of the heart that makes a world at war leading only to destruction instead of a world of growth and human flourishing.
It took me to the age of about 45 to realise that I was never meant to focus on knowing stuff but growing up is about learning and learning and learning. As we learn from our Creator our pursuit of him becomes our priority. As we pursue knowing God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit then we discover who we are, why we are here, and how to live the life he has gifted to us. God our Father knows us better than we know ourselves.
Instead of our pursuit of knowledge, our souls are crying out to be satisfied by knowing the one who created us, the one who has a plan to rescue every human being from their interpretation of self and destroy the evil in the world, so that our future with him is one of eternal safety filled with joy and praise.
Let us all have hearts that desire to learn from the Master, the one who created us, to be in relationship with Him and grow in our desire to spend eternity with Him.
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For those of us already in the church family let us pray that we focus more on our pursuit of knowing Christ rather than the pursuit of academia or bettering ourselves, as it is the Lord Jesus who transforms us to be like him as he is all knowing. Just like King David let us be in awe of who Jesus is and what he has done for us, not because we deserved it but because he uses his all knowing power to make himself known to us.
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