Matthew 13:10-17
Jesus Teaches in Parables
10 The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”
11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.12 Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. 13 This is why I speak to them in parables:
“Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15 For this people’s heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’
16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. 17 For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
Let us never forget we can gain much knowledge and Truth by studying Jesus and what He said and what He did and how He treated others...
Learning and gaining knowledge seems to be a good thing...Especially, if through the knowledge we attain grow to wisdom through our life's experiences...But we can also see and hear the things that are around us, and never see them or never hear them...Our lives sometimes pass us by quickly and we have missed many things...Can we live to much inside our heads, with all the thoughts and things we know?...Can we miss the world that is around us, with all the things going on inside our heads?...
Malcolm Muggeridge decades ago had this to say about accumulating more knowledge...“Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story,” he wrote...“Man is so avid for knowledge that everything he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology, his love becomes lechery, his wisdom becomes science...Pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.”...
What is interesting is Mr. Muggeridge said this before the time of the internet...Does accumulating knowledge have us ignore the Truth?...Does more knowledge make us miss the Truth?...We can be on the internet and search for many topics now and learn many things...The question, I think we must ask is our accumulating knowledge getting us further from the Truth or closer to the Truth?...