Do you reach the point where you have learned enough? Probably not. Even if you think you know everything, you don’t. But I think you can reach a point where you just don’t want to learn anything new. I feel that way about some things. AI is one example. I’m sure it has a lot of positive uses, but do I really need to learn how to use it?
Even though I took Calculus in college as an engineering student, I never mastered it. And when I decided to follow God’s plan for my life and go into ministry rather than engineering, I never looked at or used calculus again. I am grateful others know it and use it to help mankind.
Most of us just want to learn enough to live. We want to have the information needed to live our lives and not be burdened with stuff we think we don’t need.
Cheryl feels that way about computers. She has often said, “Just tell me which button I need to push after you die to find the information I will need.”
Some people approach Christianity and the Bible that way. “Just give me the bare minimum. Tell me what I need to know to be saved.” And Scripture does give you that information.
Acts 16:30–31 (ESV) Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
That will be enough. That’s all you need. But God wants so much more for His children.
2 Peter 3:18 (ESV) But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
God wants you to grow as His child. You do that when you spend time in His Word. You need to listen to what He has to say to you. I know I need to spend time in Word so I remember who I am and who I am not. I am NOT God. I am a poor, miserable sinner that God loves and cares for and redeemed from sin and death so that I could live with Him forever. He paid for my sin so that I would not have to do so forever in Hell. Jesus did all that with His holy, precious blood and His innocent suffering and death.
It doesn’t matter what world thinks of me or what I think of myself. God placed a high value on me.
Isaiah 43:1 (ESV) But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.
He wants to do that for everyone. Let them know about Him.
