To Know is to Love

I want to share with you some burning question that has been floating around my mind since starting school. The question of "why to get more education when I already know too much?" The reality is that we already know so much about how we need to apply Jesus' teachings but there is a great chasm between what we know and what we do. Application and implication of knowledge is our challenge. Why should I be in school gathering more intellect when I can't even handle the intellect I've already been entrusted with? In my Christian worldviews class we discussed this very question about education. With all our access to knowledge, are we becoming any wiser? At oxford university there can be found these words written on bookmarks and postcards. The more I study the more I know The more I know the more I forget The more I forget the less I know So why study?

In the Hebrew way of knowing could be summed up in this way: "to have knowledge of, means to have responsibility to, means to have care for. If one knows, one cares; if one does not care, one does not know. It is personal knowledge, but not private or subjective; the differences are decisive. Rather it is rooted in the deepest realities of God's nature and character, and our bearing His image, called to care for the world in imitation of Christ" Who is my Neighbor? I'm sure you remember the story of the Good Samaritan. The Priest and Levite, the people deemed to have a concern and love for the things of God walk past the man beaten up and mugged while the Samaritan comes to his need. Jesus condemns the Priest and Levite of not fulfilling the law of love to be a good neighbor. Jesus shows us that to know is to love. To know is to Love.

This is my prayer for the next few years of school and for the church. That our knowing would reach its full objective and target. Love!