I love people watching. If you were to ask me what my favorite
hobbies are, people watching always springs to mind. I rarely actually
say that, because "stalker" is not the impression of myself that I want to leave people with, but I really
do enjoy just sitting silently back and watching people go about their
day-to-day lives.
I see them scurrying to an appointment, or meandering lazily down the street; I see them with their headphones in their ears, or their journals in their hands; with their smart suits or their baggy pants. And I can't help but wonder, what is their story? What has brought them to this place at this time, so that our lives would intersect, even if for just the smallest moment? What stories do they have to tell?
I enjoy learning about people as much or more as I enjoy learning about the world around me. And I am certainly not alone. One of the biggest arguments, in fact, that I hear against Christianity is that it is not a belief that educated people can believe in. Once you learn enough about the world around you, you're guaranteed to not be able to simultaneously believe in God.
There is a point, however, when all of the education and wisdom in the world will not really benefit you in the long run. I disagree with the claim that Christianity is a religion for fools - the God who created logic would not house it within a religion of fallacies. But there comes a time when you simply have to believe. If we had all of the answers in the world, then there would be no reason to believe in God, no put in having faith in Him. It's good to search and question and have a reason for what you've put your faith in. But at the end of the day, you will still have to put faith - illogical, not based in science, just a decision to belief - in something. What have you put your faith in?
15 What is crooked cannot be straightened;
what is lacking cannot be counted.
16 I said to myself, “Look, I have increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge.” 17 Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.
18 For with much wisdom comes much sorrow;
the more knowledge, the more grief.
I see them scurrying to an appointment, or meandering lazily down the street; I see them with their headphones in their ears, or their journals in their hands; with their smart suits or their baggy pants. And I can't help but wonder, what is their story? What has brought them to this place at this time, so that our lives would intersect, even if for just the smallest moment? What stories do they have to tell?
I enjoy learning about people as much or more as I enjoy learning about the world around me. And I am certainly not alone. One of the biggest arguments, in fact, that I hear against Christianity is that it is not a belief that educated people can believe in. Once you learn enough about the world around you, you're guaranteed to not be able to simultaneously believe in God.
There is a point, however, when all of the education and wisdom in the world will not really benefit you in the long run. I disagree with the claim that Christianity is a religion for fools - the God who created logic would not house it within a religion of fallacies. But there comes a time when you simply have to believe. If we had all of the answers in the world, then there would be no reason to believe in God, no put in having faith in Him. It's good to search and question and have a reason for what you've put your faith in. But at the end of the day, you will still have to put faith - illogical, not based in science, just a decision to belief - in something. What have you put your faith in?
Ecclesiastes 1:12-18
12 I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. 13
I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done
under the heavens. What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind! 14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind. 15 What is crooked cannot be straightened;
what is lacking cannot be counted.
16 I said to myself, “Look, I have increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge.” 17 Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.
18 For with much wisdom comes much sorrow;
the more knowledge, the more grief.
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