A Life Worth Living

Some of us hold undergraduate, graduate, or even terminal degrees. But today, even without a formal education, knowledge is just a few keystrokes away. Type a question into an AI search engine, and answers flood in. Information is everywhere. And yet, none of us knows comprehensively.

Consider this: our brains have enough ‘storage capacity’ to hold the equivalent of ‘three million hours of TV shows. You would have to leave the TV running continuously for more than 300 years to use up all that storage.’ Some researchers believe the estimate should be much higher.

If you tried to take in all the information currently available on the internet, one person would take 328 billion years (according to a chat GPT calculation). Assume perfect memory and no new information being added. That is staggering and futile because our memory is imperfect. We forget. (How many times have you used the ‘find my phone’ feature? My wife will tell you I use it almost every day)

None of us knows compressively. None of us recalls absolutely. Only God does.

And yet – it is amazing how much confidence we place in how little we know, and how little trust we place in the one who knows all things past, present, and future. Such knowledge is His at every indivisible instant.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding … (Proverbs 3:5)