Open Your Eyes

No matter how much man learns, he continues to think that he has discovered it all. At one point it was believed that there was nothing smaller than an atom. There was a time when man thought that the earth was flat. There was even a time when it was believed that every day there was a new sun. A burning ball of light came up and then died, and a new one took its place the next day. No matter what, man has been defiant in his ignorance. We are like the stubborn teen who thinks they know everything.

I love it when people say things like, “Hasn’t man evolved past things like this?” or, “That used to be acceptable behavior, but now we know better.” In all of human history have we never learned? We know nothing. We discover and learn all the time, but what we continue to realize is that we don’t know it all. You would think that after a while we would see that there has to be someone who knows more than us.

We don’t really think that way. Man always assumes that he is the most intelligent, unless it’s aliens. Then they are smarter and more brutal than us. For some reason we are always the underdog there.

The truth is God is over us. He is far smarter than us. He was the brilliant mind that came up with every good thing. He figured out how to make it work. He set it into motion. His brilliant mind conceived of all the amazing things that we still don’t know or understand. Somehow, man has functioned with limited knowledge about things. We take steps, sometimes even leaps. But in the end, we know nothing.

There are times when I look at Him, and I realize that, in the grand scheme of things, none of that matters. What matters is Him, God. He is what matters. His intellect, wrapped up in love and a beautiful smile, is worth knowing. All the knowledge and all the wisdom the world has to offer is utterly shunned in His presence. He is the keeper of the keys of wisdom. He is the one who dreamed up all that we know and don’t know. Open your eyes and seek the true teacher of all things.