Do we need to know everything? King David didn’t think so. “LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty. Neither do I concern myself with great matters, nor with things too profound for me. Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.” (Psalm 131:1-2)
A weaned baby tastes foods that are more suited to its growth and development. It is no longer breast fed but spoon fed. This is not to say that we should not value knowledge, just that we should not be like breast-fed babies when someone comes along with some new ‘revelation’.
Some people had to wean themselves from planetary prophecies and the like. Late last century it was so-called Planetary Alignment. The major promoter of that theory was an American who claimed to have fled to Australia from the FBI. (As if the FBI could not have tracked him to Perth, Western Australia!) He sold stacks of books while doing the rounds of churches here in Australia. May God deliver us from naivety and gullibility!
If a thing seems incredible, it probably is. There’s more than enough in the mini library of sixty-six books that make up the Bible to keep us busy learning about things that really matter. The great circus promoter P T Barnum said “There’s a sucker born every minute.” (How crass!)
But even if that were so, what is perfectly natural for babies is not for grown- ups. King David weaned himself from the desire to know everything, but his son and successor Solomon learned a little too much and ended up jaded with life.
“This one thing I know…” is a good beginning. No doubt that man born blind but healed by Jesus learned many more things in his walk with the Lord. Like the manna from heaven, there’s enough revelation every day, but never more than we are ready for. When the people asked for meat God gave them more quail than they could eat, and they dug their graves with their teeth (so to speak).
Enough already!