“See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.”
Isaiah 65:17 (NIV)
There’s a difference between knowing something, not knowing something, believing something, and not believing something. A difference between understanding and confusion. We must recognize the difference in ourselves. I’ve often heard it said that the most dangerous people are not those who know and don’t understand but those who do not know and think that they do. Many times in my life I have thought that I understood something, such as what I was supposed to do in a given situation, until later on when I didn’t do what I was supposed to do and was asked, “Why didn’t you ask? If you didn’t understand then you should have,” or something to that effect. This raises the question, how can we know to ask questions when we think that we know the answers already?
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