Seek wisdom rather than knowledge

We as people know so much about the world.

No, we know nothing. While watching "It's a Wonderful Life" for the second time this year, my friends pointed out that people in the movie smoked without guilt because they had no idea what the side effects were. My friends then joked that cell phones are the new cigarettes, and that one day people will look back at movies and say, "Look how they just just held it up to the ears. They really had no idea."

But we know so much.

We can't even describe color. We don't even know if we all see the same colors. We have been taught to identify what we see. There is no way of knowing what others see because we can't describe what we see.

But science is constantly advancing.

Yeah, and we still cannot explain how wind happens or what it is. We all can feel it. We all know it is there. No one actually knows how or why.

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Why do we like thinking we have things figured out? We don't...sorry.

Socrates said, "The only true knowledge is knowing that we know nothing."

Someone who is widely known as one of the smartest humans ever was quoted to say that.

Why do we concern ourselves with gaining all this knowledge? Pop culture has news all the time that simply doesn't matter at all. It's almost depressing to know they have such an audience.

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Here's what I know.

Jesus thought differently than anyone who has ever been on earth. His thoughts matched those of God. He is infinitely wise.

Can you imagine what that would be like??

He was totally aware of everything happening around him all the time. He knew what was happening to each individual blade of grass under his feet. He knew the problems of everyone in the crowds around him. Somehow he was still able to focus on whatever was at hand.

Complete awareness. Constant love. For everyone.

We (definitely including myself) fill our brains with so much junk that we forget to love. We do not stop to encourage the friend who had just failed his final because we have to go study. That extra five minutes really made the difference in our grade...

I am certain of God's love for me. He loves me even though he knows me. His love is all I know.

Death and taxes. Ha. People in some countries are too poor to have taxes, and Jesus beat death.

What do we know?