Genius Is Relative

We don’t know all the answers, but we can certainly start with a few pertinent questions. Open the Book that opens the door to the library.

March’s Awakening, Day 21

The more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know.

 —Albert Einstein 

The thing is, in this life you can know a great deal about something, and still be wrong.

 —Sir Len Hutton

 We don’t know a millionth of one per cent about anything.

 —Thomas Alva Edison 

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

 —Aldous Huxley 

Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?” Romans 11:33–34 NIV 

“To God belong wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his. Job 12:13 NIV

“Pay attention, Job, and listen to me; be silent, and I will speak. If you have anything to say, answer me; speak up, for I want to vindicate you. But if not, then listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.” Job 33:31–33 NIV

            How little we know. How little we understand. How little we can even fathom or contemplate. Even the greatest minds and the greatest talents of all humanity struggle with the limits of our human comprehension. The simplest workings of the most infinitesimally minute particle and the simplest workings of the most grandiose structure in the universe are all way beyond the most magnificent of human understanding. Oh to know the mind of God!

            As an intellectual, I can imagine spending my eternity in the library of God, or maybe even better, in His classroom. I’m not sure eternity is long enough for this feeble mind to even learn and understand a fraction of what there is to potentially know. But I look forward to the opportunity to learn all I can. It does start with the questions. And God has all the answers. I pray that this mind can wrap itself around and engage in understanding. The library of eternal knowledge is huge and it helps to know with which book to start—it’s His Book of course, the One that opens the door of the library itself.