How Much I Don’t Know

    Have you ever stopped to think about how much you don’t know? Take for example the making of a video game. I enjoy playing once in a while, but inevitably there is a point each time I do where I blink in wonder at what I’m witnessing on the screen. How did they engineer that? It’s so lifelike! Or, if you like an example from nature, how in the world do nutrients make it from the ground all the way up to the crown of my sixty foot cottonwood? Complexity abounds.

 

  We could go on and on about microchips and cellular division and RNA replication, etc. But what blows my gourd more than anything else is how God is pulling the events of history into a singular direction for our good and his glory. I’ll admit, there’s a whole lot I don’t understand. But, that won’t always be true. 1 Corinthians 13:12 says, “For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.”

    There are really smart people in the world. They stand on the shoulders of the smart people that came before. For all of our combined genius, however, we still suffer from the same old problems that have plagued the world since the fall in Genesis three. If we compare ourselves to the animals around us, of course we will feel smart. But, I’ve been on Canadian lakes as the stars twinkle through the aurora borealis. I believe all creation testifies to the unsurpassed genius of its creator—a Creator that makes the daVinci’s and Hawking’s of the world look silly in comparison. 

    So the next time I’m scratching my head about politics, car mechanics, world poverty, or the artistry of fireworks I don’t want to give up pressing on for understanding in this life. Science and engineering are fascinating. Yet, there will come a day when the mysteries will be revealed. Heaven, in my understanding will be one day of mystery solving after another. I’m looking forward to a constant state of having my mind blown. But, for now I’ll keep staring at my cottonwood and taking breaks to throw a turtle shell at one of my boys in Mario Kart.