Good morning. I use computers every day. For my work, I use them for research and for writing. At home, I keep up with my fantasy football team, fishing reports, emails, and I use my laptop to send out the “thought for the day”. I use computers, I rely on computers, and I occasionally enjoy what the computers can do for me. But one thing is always certain, I know nothing about how they work. When something goes wrong with a computer, I need someone with far more expertise to bail me out and get the thing operating again. I also know that I am presently using only a small percentage of what my computers are actually capable of doing for me. But that’s okay, the inner workings of computers and the fullness of their functions are an area of which I am willing to remain largely ignorant.
I imagine that I am not alone in having such a relationship with my computers. Honestly, there are other things that are pretty much the same. I drive cars, but when something goes wrong with one, I don’t pretend to know how to fix anything but the most basic of issues.
The apostle Paul identified the problem of willful ignorance for Christian people. In Ephesians 3:14-19 he prayed that we may become more willing to have our understanding increased: So I bow in prayer before the Father. Every family in heaven and on earth gets its true name from him. I ask the Father with his great glory to give you the power to be strong in your spirits. He will give you that strength through his Spirit. I pray that Christ will live in your hearts because of your faith. I pray that your life will be strong in love and be built on love. And I pray that you and all God’s holy people will have the power to understand the greatness of Christ’s love—how wide, how long, how high, and how deep that love is. Christ’s love is greater than anyone can ever know, but I pray that you will be able to know that love. Then you can be filled with everything God has for you.
May we come to know that which has been for us, unknowable. May we come to appreciate that which has been for us beyond our grasp. May we come to accept the love of God, a love that transcends everything we have come to believe to be true about love. May we come to realize that God wants us to have more, so very much more, of Himself and of all that He desires for us.
May we come to know more and be joyful in such knowledge.
Vern