Just a quick thought today…
I often wonder what drives my need to understand things. This point obviously highlights a potential struggle with blind faith. As I was in bed about to fall asleep the other night my mind started racing through this and other thoughts about a search for wisdom and knowledge and the story of Job and how this all relates to my desire for a more intimate relationship with God. So I started praying.
In a nutshell this is the abbreviated version what I came up.
Knowledge by itself is empty, emotionless, words on a page, words spoken, words received. Knowledge is a tool to accomplish a task, like a spade, a hammer or a screwdriver.
Rarely do I actually seek just the knowledge I gain from reading a book. I read so that I can understand things better, other times I read for entertainment, but I think school is the last time I read anything purely just for knowledge.
Understanding is the value of knowledge just as wisdom is the value of understanding. But there is a small twist, understanding does not complete wisdom. Meaning it isn’t understanding alone that brings wisdom.
Searching for God’s character is a search for understanding that brings us closer to Him. Understanding has the potential for a greater intimacy with Him. But that’s where the search for understanding has to be dropped and faith steps in. It is faith that truly builds intimacy with God.
The wisdom in faith is that there are times we know that we will never understand…
Filed under: Unbound Thought | Tagged: faith, God, Intimacy, knowledge, understanding, wisdom
