Finding the Wisdom of God
Tim Melton
John 21:6
There is a concept known as the ''Knowledge Doubling Curve.'' It is measured by the time that it takes the amount of knowledge in our world to double. Thanks to smartphones, television, better transportation, satellites, and the internet our knowledge is now doubling faster than ever before. For example, it took centuries for information to double in ancient history. It is evident by how little change occurred. How few discoveries there were in comparison to today. For thousands of years transportation was limited to boats, horse and wagons, and other basic forms of transport. In just a couple of centuries it has now gone from horse and wagon to man walking on the moon, airplanes, cruise ships, bullet trains, nuclear submarines, and who knows what is next.
Before 1900 the accumulation of knowledge doubled every century. By the end of World War 2 it was every 25 years?Today it is every 18 months. IBM predicts that within a few years, we will measure the doubling rate by the day or hour.
But what has all of this technology and information really done for us? We still struggle with war, poverty, greed, disease, corruption, prejudice, immorality, human trafficking and much more. And that is not even including the sinful issues in our own hearts. Man's information and learning can only take us so far. While great inventions are being made, the most profound questions and problems of life can only be answered by the One who brought us and our world into being. Only the Spirit of God can know and minister to the spirit of man.
We must move beyond information and look for wisdom that can only be found in God. We find a story in John 21 that gives us an example of how a few men experienced the wisdom of God.
This story took place in the days after Jesus had risen from the dead. Jesus had already appeared to the disciples twice. As the story begins several of Jesus' apostles had decided to go night fishing in ...
Tim Melton
John 21:6
There is a concept known as the ''Knowledge Doubling Curve.'' It is measured by the time that it takes the amount of knowledge in our world to double. Thanks to smartphones, television, better transportation, satellites, and the internet our knowledge is now doubling faster than ever before. For example, it took centuries for information to double in ancient history. It is evident by how little change occurred. How few discoveries there were in comparison to today. For thousands of years transportation was limited to boats, horse and wagons, and other basic forms of transport. In just a couple of centuries it has now gone from horse and wagon to man walking on the moon, airplanes, cruise ships, bullet trains, nuclear submarines, and who knows what is next.
Before 1900 the accumulation of knowledge doubled every century. By the end of World War 2 it was every 25 years?Today it is every 18 months. IBM predicts that within a few years, we will measure the doubling rate by the day or hour.
But what has all of this technology and information really done for us? We still struggle with war, poverty, greed, disease, corruption, prejudice, immorality, human trafficking and much more. And that is not even including the sinful issues in our own hearts. Man's information and learning can only take us so far. While great inventions are being made, the most profound questions and problems of life can only be answered by the One who brought us and our world into being. Only the Spirit of God can know and minister to the spirit of man.
We must move beyond information and look for wisdom that can only be found in God. We find a story in John 21 that gives us an example of how a few men experienced the wisdom of God.
This story took place in the days after Jesus had risen from the dead. Jesus had already appeared to the disciples twice. As the story begins several of Jesus' apostles had decided to go night fishing in ...
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