Conversations with Knowledge.

I have moved to a place where, I realize that there is so much that I have no knowledge of, and this, has been the main highlight in the two decades and some years I have lived on earth,

It has moved me to a place of soothing my ego to humility to a point where I act most of the time like I do not know anything — even in my day to day conversations so that I may be able to absorb whatever kind of knowledge I am meant gain in a conversation, chat, discussion or even through life experience.

I have very few people I talk to, which is to my liking however, this is subject to change based on the vision I have and the place where God is taking me.

Soon.

So the instances I get to hear a person talk — I listen, and this comes with the mere fact that one of my many names is Martha and I was told by someone who was one day decided to do a little research on my names based on my personalities and it came through that I am listener — part of me being a listener also comes from the position I am in my family — middle children, don’t stand a chance whenever there is an argument or debate, you somehow learn to just take instructions because you stand in between two age groups so you somehow end up being controlled by the young ones and the elder ones too, it is a tag of war kinda situation when you are in the middle.

I come from a very strong opinionated family with many siblings with different personalities and I, on the flip side of everything chose to be, — rather fate has it that I am just aloof by nature/character, but this is a selective trait — the same way I can be a selective listener — I mean we all do need to select and absorb what will make us grow and become who we want to become and the rest should be done away with.

The other day, someone happened to mention

“you really like watching movies…’’

well, that’s true, not all the way true though but everyone has their own way of assuming situations which is also okay is some instances, plus a little bit of entertainment and there can be good for the brain and also, assuming am not watching movies, most times I could be watching cartoons (favs), or I could be listening to talks, debates, free philosophy classes, explanation of theories, sermons, documentaries, I could be attending conferences of preserving the environment which is such an ignored topic, how many times would you sit down and have a good banter that majorly highlights on how we should protect & preserve our environment and the effects that comes with it, how often do we speak of global warming— think about that for a minute, also sometimes I could be listening to music or watching proper music videos, I could be watching the news, African News or discovery channel — all this and major — especially this year, I have been indulging in a lot of apologetics, — Christian apologetics. There is a whole lot for us to take in as knowledge in this age and we have no limitations to it, so it's a choice when you choose not to know.

Back to where I started.

I realized there’s is so much that human beings do not know and when you cannot question these fact/s that are out there then it means it's either you are relying on someone else’s understanding which could be truth or no truth.

Now this is scary when you are much of a thinker like I am — so this prompts me to really listen and read more or do my own level of research and not the kind of research like the relic hunter, two or three videos, or google search and a few references of books, quotes from very knowledgeable people or resource are just enough to help me change my mind rather view things differently

Ignorance is bliss.

We cannot just keep entertaining the fact that we do not know and rely on rather make decisions from one side's perspective.

(Read Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think — Hans Rosling — still on it)

This year I know definitely if I had relied on one source of information or counsel — I would be doomed rather I would have made a decision/s that would have affected me intensely and the people around me.

Not every word is the final word and not every counsel is the right counsel :

I emphasize reading and having very knowledgeable debates, I have been in situations where I have wanted to make comments on an argument and debate but the knowledge rather the understanding of people differs from what I know so most times, I go quiet and probably go do extensive research or soul searching and then I determine rather try to distinguish the wrongs, the rights, the assumption which I sometimes fall prey of but luckily enough I don’t speak where I know my views can be used against me or in reference of me yet they could be wrong unless am drunk which most times am more of a sober being for this particular reasons.

This is part (snippet) of what I learned today;

From Ravi Zacharias (Who are you, God)

‘It has been said that “the proper study of mankind is man.” I believe it is equally true that the proper study of God’s elect is God; the proper study of a Christian is the Godhead. The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father.

There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation of the Divinity. It is a subject so vast, that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity; so deep, that our pride is drowned in its infinity. Other subjects we can grapple with; in them we feel a kind of self-content, and go our way with the thought, “Behold I am wise.” But when we come to this master science, finding that our plumbline cannot sound its depth, and that our eagle eye cannot see its height, we turn away with the thought that vain man would be wise, but he is like a wild ass’s colt; and with solemn exclamation, “I am but of yesterday, and know nothing.” No subject of contemplation will tend more to humble the mind, than thoughts of God….

But while the subject humbles the mind, it also expands it. He who often thinks of God, will have a larger mind than the man who simply plods around this narrow globe…. The most excellent study for expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity. Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the great subject of the Deity.

And, while humbling and expanding, this subject is eminently consolatory. Oh, there is, in contemplating Christ, a balm for every wound; in musing on the Father, there is a quietus for every grief; and in the influence of the Holy Ghost, there is a balsam for every sore.

Would you lose your sorrow? Would you drown your cares? Then go, plunge yourself in the Godhead’s deepest sea; be lost in his immensity; and you shall come forth as from a couch of rest, refreshed and invigorated. I know nothing which can so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of sorrow and grief; so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead. It is to that subject that I invite you this morning.

Excerpted from “The Immutability of God,” A sermon by Charles H. Spurgeon at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. J. I. Packer quotes from this message in Knowing God.

“When you learn, teach, when you get, give….”

Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I am Devoting myself to learning every day, and disarming myself of the notion of being wiser than the person next to me — there is so much to learn beyond your circle.