At Least We're Learning

"But remember, at least you're still learning."

This comment was made by a senior in one of my classes when I was talking to another guy from my grade about how odd our english teacher is. The senior had the teacher last year and knew of more of her eccentricities than we had seen yet, but he managed to focus on the fact that, regardless of her personal tendencies, she was teaching us, and that was the point. This guy loves learning, and he's good at it. He asks in-depth and sometimes completely random questions about everything and will never be contented with what knowledge he has. And I'd be willing to bet that he's smart enough to know that however he much he learns there will still be so much out there that's a mystery.

This is how we should be as Christians. Despite what unusual, and even painful, things we go through, we should always be focused on the fact that it's helping us get closer to God and learn about who he is. We should always be curious about him and seek to know him better and better, even though we can't possibly get to know him perfectly with our finite bodies and minds. Let us not be discouraged by that fact, but take heart from it, because it makes God infinitely bigger than us, and I don't know about you, but I want someone bigger and better than me governing the universe. It also means that we never have to stop learning about God and being awestruck by everything that he is. God will never run out of facets of himself to reveal to humans. This relationship and knowledge of God won't pass away either, like the wisdom and facts that my classmate spends so much time amassing.

19For it is written:
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."[c]
20Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 22Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.
-1 Corinthians 1:19-25