Wondering about Wisdom

     Sometimes I wonder what heaven will be like. I wonder if we will be vegetarian and there will really be no killing. I wonder if we will eat. I wonder if we will work. I wonder if we will live in homes with our families. I wonder if we will even be able to focus on anyone or anything but God. Here’s the thing though, I just wonder.

    

I have come to an interesting spot as a true Philomath, a lover of learning. On certain theological issues I have stopped trying to learn. I stick with just wondering.

    

There are so many questions we have about our futures and the things that are outside this world that are not answered in the Bible. But I have come to the conclusion that they were not answered for a reason. When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit that meant they now had knowledge of good and evil. They did not have knowledge of everything. When Solomon prayed for wisdom, wisdom that broke the limits of normality, he was granted it, His life was also a huge wreck. Just because he had the answers to everything he still saw his life as meaningless, wisdom ruined him.

     

I and my dear friends Kaitlin and Geo were driving the other night and we got on the subject of trying to figure out the answers to the questions of the Bible that don’t really have answers. Where is hell, is everyone going to hell, what about universalism, what about heaven, what about….. we could go on and on. As bible college students we are so wrapped up in knowing everything! We want to have the answers so we don’t look dumb and so we feel wise. We jump into finding the answers to things that aren’t even in the Bible. I decided to share my heart and conviction with them and now with whoever actually reads this silly blog.

     

We should fully seek everything that God has revealed but the questions that are kept quiet we should just leave to Him. We can study what has been said and peacefully accept what hasn’t. Who are we as humans to force our answers upon the questions that God isn’t ready to reveal the actual answer to. If we are not careful we can ruin our spiritual and physical lives by taking on the wisdom that not even Solomon could handle.

So let us be wise and not know but simply wonder.