One of my richest blessings in life is I have always been surrounded by very smart people. One of my aspirations has always been to be the least informed person in the room thus giving me the opportunity to learn something new and wonderful from each person around me. To be hungry to know is a great blessing. I have friends who are wonderful artists and some who are scientists and some who are theologians and some who understand psychology. It is a treat to be with them. There is so much to gain.
My father was a teacher and he would read to me. Perhaps that is what made me hungry to absorb all I could. We had a set of World Book Encyclopedia and I would take A or D or K, it didn’t matter which one, and turn each page looking at the pictures and wishing I could know all those things. You could imagine my excitement the day I first read Colossians 2:3. “In him are stored all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” To know God, to spend time with Him, is the secret to an ever-expanding understanding of life and the mysteries of being. He knows all that is known and because He is a creator He continues to think new thoughts and create new knowledge. Spending eternity with Him means we get to share not only His old ideas but also His new ideas.
Someone once tried to convince me that God knows all that can ever be known or thought and I could not accept that. It would mean He would be bored. But He can never be bored because forever He will be thinking of new ways to bless us and shower us with His mercies. See Ephesians 2.
Written by Roger Bothwell on October 19, 2011
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