I have to say today is another day that is hard to stay focused. I am a slave to my physical body. If it has needs, my mind is drawn towards that and away from any spiritual concerns. Matthew 26:41 says, "the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." So much success, failure, value is placed on our physical self. Our entire quality of life can be based on that. I have had back pains before that take all focus away from anything and everything but the physical pain in my back. I then had a new appreciation for people that live and function on a daily basis that have chronic pain.
Today's reading was in Chapter 11 of Genesis. I got absolutely nothing from it. Most of it was about genealogy. I do wonder who those people were and why are they mentioned in the bible. What significance is the genealogy? Does the saying, "You have to know where you came from to know where you are going" apply to genealogy in the bible? I wonder if I did more research on the people that were named would I get a divine word from God? Some spiritual revelation to feed my spirit. Who knows.
On a totally different subject that is way off course....BUT, do you ever think about how much knowledge you do not know? I sometimes wonder if all the knowledge about every single thing in the world could be measured, what percent of knowledge do I know. Would it even be 1%. I had answered a question for Jackson or Cole the other day (can't remember which child I was talking to) and then they said, "What do you not know?" I told him "I do not know because I don't know it." Deep philosophical discussion with a child. It does make me want to learn more about things I don't know. Anytime a subject is brought up that I do not know anything about AND it sparks interest in me, I am going to do a little research and get more knowledge. I would like to get to 10% of knowing all things. I wonder if that is even possible.
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