Knowing so much and knowing so little!

 

Have you notice that we are able to know everything in terms of what is happening, why it is happening and why it is not happening in the way it should be happening but on the other hand we are also clueless to things even though they look so simple and straight. We always wish we were in perfect control, at least things that fall in our sphere of influence. Every day we forget our finiteness and our inability to be in perfect control of things all times.

There are many business tycoons and billionaires whom we thought are in perfect control but are suddenly convicted and jailed, if not for longer period but least for a short time? The highest power in human terms is the possession of immense wealth, which people believe they can use it to rescue themselves from any crisis. Yet with all the abundance they are still not in perfect control. This shows the glaring distinction between God and Man. We are just human.

John Frame states, “Because we are not God, because we are finite, not infinite, we cannot know everything at a glance, and therefore our knowledge is limited to one perspective or another. God knows absolutely everything, because he planned everything, made everything, and determines what happens in the world he made. So, we describe him as omniscient. One interesting implication of God’s omniscience is that he not only knows all the facts about himself and the world; he also knows how everything appears from every possible perspective.”.

But we are different. We are finite, and our knowledge is finite. We can only know the world from the limited perspective of our own body and mind. The effects of this finitude, and even more of sin, should caution us against overconfidence in our claims to knowledge. I am not saying that we should doubt everything. Certainly, our limited perspective gives us no excuse to doubt that we have five fingers, or that 2+2 = 4, or that God exists. Our finitude does not imply that all our knowledge is wrong, or that certainty is impossible. But we do, in most situations, need to guard against mistakes.

The fact we know so much and know so little will continue to be our reality. We need to understand things from God’s perspective and ask God to help us. He understands our broken human condition. Jesus’ awareness of the finiteness of human beings is stated in the Bible as, “No one needed to tell him about human nature, for he knew what was in each person’s heart.”. Jesus was God incarnate. The problem is that we look to the infinite God only when we want things. Especially, to gratify our selfish desires. Your soul matters as it never dies. It is also never recreated to a new creature as told through the stories. We shall all live eternally.  Jesus stated, “… I came that you may have life and life in abundance.”. Experiencing the forgiveness of sins and living according to His will allows us to know our path and live a life in abundance.

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