The more we know, the more we realise how much we don't know!

Saturday 4th October 2008

On this Saturday I went to Christopher's home to celebrate his birthday. This was a life changing event for me. I was ABSOLUTELY amazed to see so many Deaf people apart from the ones I knew before. I remember just sitting and looking on in absolute amazement...I was shaken. It was not just the actual number of Deaf there, but that there were actually that number of Deaf people who needed to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ and they were within my reach.

I sat and the unlearning process was taking place. An entire world of the Deaf had existed and for about 21 years I lived without the knowledge of it. I was shaken. The more we know, the more we realise how much we don't know. I always think of education as a humbling process. The acquisition of knowledge highlights our ignorance and if we choose, this could humble us. I am humbled to know that I have been so clueless and that I have been greedily chasing after knowledge in formal institutions when real, true, life lessons have been around me all along... I feel as if God has hidden these things from me and is now exposing it. When I think about the omniscience of God, I am reminded that my little plans are nothing in comparison to what He has planned for me.

Isaiah 55:8-9 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Well, as I observed the Deaf that day I knew that much work needs to done in order to win these souls for Christ and for these Precious lives to be transformed and their minds renewed. I just wanted everyone to be saved and experience God's love and acceptance. I wanted them to know that there is a God who loves them and is deeply concerned about them! Sigh...God is good. For we know that it is 'Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD Almighty (Zachariah 4:6).