Every Day (Audio)
Every day I aim to learn something new. Maybe it’s a fact I did not know, a process to accomplish something I had never tried before, or even something new about myself. Even polishing something I do know so I can do it better the next time… That’s me every day!
Peeling back the layers of what I don't know, I love finding something new to know. Click To TweetWhy? This world is a big place and there is no way to know everything. No library or database is big enough to house all the knowledge!
Now. Not everything unknown has equal value and interest to me and the world I live in. I do not need to know all the facts and processes behind, oh, let’s pick on a popular topic in my neck of the woods… I don’t need to know everything there is to know about heroin addiction… or alcohol abuse, or homelessness, or the gestation times of the New Zealand snails that invaded the waterfront of Olympia’s capital area.
If I need this information then I simply look it up at the needful time.
But the things I seek out are the things that are impactful in my daily life, my corporate calling, and how to help people I come in contact with.
Every morning I spend time writing, and from some fresh topics that I come up with, my investigation always reveals something I did not know. I dig out knowledge for the blog, dip into the inkwell of my knowledge and polish the end product with something new.
My morning research of scripture is preparation for my day. Preparing for a lesson at church satisfies the old adage, “When I teach, I learn twice.” Though I may know some broad spectrum’s of the bible, there is always something new to learn. Something fun to dig out. Some new nugget or tool to file away for another day.
Jesus called this daily bread (Luke 11:3). We should feed the hunger of our mind and souls every day with proper nutrition. The disciples continued daily in the temple (Acts 2:46) to dig in deeper and build their spiritual knowledge for the job ahead of them. The psalmist mentioned a number of times that he sought God daily (Psalms 61:8) and it was an early morning part of his day (Psalms 63:1).
Why the focus? I believe that being ignorant must be a sin. Just like “ignorance of the law is no excuse” we just build our knowledge of things that are important for the time we are living it. Plato, who lived over 2500 years ago, stated:
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. ~Plato Click To TweetThere is something wrong with being proud of your ignorance. Daily digging into knowledgebase keeps us from this path! Whether it be the facts and figures needed to progress or the needful things to be able to talk intelligently with others. Conversation with family, friends, co-workers, and strangers can easily point out the holes in your missing knowledge.
Why do we not isolate some learning experiences every day? For some, they are too busy, or lazy, or arrogant, or content. It is only in the wisdom books of the Bible (Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon) that we find several English words that lay out my thought for today. Quiet and Search. We should find those quiet times that we can give ourselves to an everyday experience of growth, and we should search out the knowledge that prepares us for the day ahead.
I’m just saying. Every day should have a learning experience.