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It is impossible to fathom how much sheer knowledge the human race possesses cumulatively. The internet has become a means by which billions of digital users share their thoughts and discoveries almost instantaneously. The average American consumes about 34 gigabytes of information every day, an increase of almost 500 percent in the last three decades. The U.S. Patent Office issued 374,006 patents in fiscal year 2021 alone. Each of those patented items involved countless hours of inspiration and perspiration (to borrow Thomas Edison’s phrase). The array of fields in which one can study is dizzying, with one site listing more than 1,800 undergraduate majors available at all universities and colleges in the United States, including astrobiology, Egyptology, medieval poetry, metallurgy, diving technology, costume design, and jazz studies.
One afternoon in college, I came to the basement of the humanities library and saw a vast room where obsolete and discarded books from the stacks upstairs were stored. I picked up a weighty tome of more than five hundred pages on a subject that I had never heard of. I think it had to do with madrigal singing in Renaissance Italy. I began to realize how little knowledge I actually possessed. The more you know, the more you know that you don’t know.
Colossians 2:3 says that in Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. That is a staggering claim, but it lines up with His being as the omniscient God. Everything that can be known, Christ knows, because He is God. God knows more about physics than all Nobel Prize winners combined. He knows more about Japanese sword making than the most accomplished katana master in Kyoto. He knows more about investment strategy than Warren Buffett. He knows more about the oil industry than John Rockefeller did. He knows more about filmmaking than Steven Spielberg.
More to the point, Christ knows the mind of God completely. And He knows more about you than you do. He understands the intricacies of your heart and mind. Paul lamented about his sin nature, “I do not understand my own actions” (Rom. 7:15). But Christ understood him. So also with you. He knows why you do everything you ever do. If you are a Christian, His Spirit worked in your heart so that you would follow Him and receive eternal life. And He knows how to protect your precious faith and guide you through the hostile territory of this world and bring you safely to His glorious home.
When you arrive there, He will teach you even more of what He knows. The inventory of the treasures of Christ’s wisdom and knowledge will take eternity to explore. And it will be your delight to take in each glowing piece of His knowledge with your glorified mind, which at that time will be perfectly conformed to Christ’s.