Are You a Know it all Person?
Sometimes we all come in contact with a fellow human who presents themselves as if they know it all, and seem to have answers to everything. They present themselves as if they know it all and don’t need anyone to tell them what to do. A more common phenomenon is the idea of psycho analyzing another person who may innocently be experiencing some kind of trauma or disaster as if we know exactly the cause of such a dilemma.
In Jesus’s days, some of His disciples came to Him as He was attempting to heal a blind person and asked Him, “Who sinned that the man was born blind: this man or his parents that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was neither this man nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be glorified or displayed in him” (John 9:1-3).
It can presumably be assumed that the thinking of Jesus’s disciples was that blindness of the man was caused as a result of sin of either the blind man himself or his parents! Don’t we also sometimes think that way rationalizing human misfortune, trauma or disaster of any magnitude as if we know the complete truth? But such a thinking could only be an assumption at best and not certainty! It’s only God Christ who knows it all as evident in the quoted Scripture. He is the only One who knows it all to whom we ought to give the credit and trust completely with our life.
The Bible describes God as the Creator of the entire universe and the galaxies by the power of His might, including humanity, you and I by the breath of His might as a living being as per Genesis 1-2. He gives us life creating us in His own image and apportions the length of years for each to live on earth as per Psalm 24.
Psalm 139 decribes God as the epitome, the all knowing God, all powerful God, ever present God who is everywhere all at the same time. God had always being from eternity to eternity without any shadow of doubt.
The greatest manifestation of this God is that “He so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son Jesus that whoever believes in Him shall not die, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). He became human to redeem us back to Himself.
Unlike God, the self knowledge of ourselves is significant, but it is not enough. None of us has absolute and complete knowledge of ourselves or someone else, because realistically we are humanly limited. And this ought to humble us so we can surrender our life to the lordship of God Christ who knows it all.
This food for thought writeup today is intended to inspire us to trust Jesus as our personal Savior and Lord of our life for a meaningful life, engagement and experience as per John 10:10.
May God Himself help us to know and humbly accept our human limitations and commit our lives to the care of the unlimited God, our Heavenly Father who loves and desires everyone of us to come to His saving knowledge in the name of Jesus, the Christ.