Peace Taker #5- Wanting to Know It All, Part 1 (TMF:677)

Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Peace to Live By: Peace Taker #5- Wanting to Know It All, Part 1 (TMF:677) - Daniel Litton
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       Number five in looking at things that take away our peace: Wanting to know about everything possible. “I said to myself, “Look, I am better educated than any of the kings before me in Jerusalem. I have greater wisdom and knowledge.” So I worked hard to be wise instead of foolish—but now I realize that even this was like chasing the wind. For the more my wisdom, the more my grief; to increase knowledge only increases distress” (Ecclesiastes 1:17, 18, TLB). In our day of the Internet, there is knowledge everywhere we turn when we’re on our computers and mobile devices. It isn’t always good to know everything that you possibly can, whether it be about the world or about our own circles of friends, family, or coworkers. Sometimes a lack of knowledge about things is in fact good. This is because the more we know, the more we can become grieved or worried in our minds. And being sorrowful and worrying about things takes away our peace.