For a cuture who knows more than we ever have, we still know nothing worth knowing. What will all of this knowing benefit us later on? How will knowing all of this benefit us if we will eventually forget?
Students learn information Monday through Thursday and test on Friday. That information may or may not be used again until the final. If our memories work on a weekly basis then we are in trouble. Eventually they’ll decide “Look, the test scores are down twelve overall points. We need to simplify the college admittance tests and to switch the testing days to every other day.” Many people say that we’re getting smarter and smarter. They are incorect, we are learning more and more but we’re not getting smarter. Way back when the schools had only one classroom and one teacher the seniors faced tests more difficult and shorter than the dreaded SAT and ACT. Did anything that they ever learn benefit them even now? My point is too many people are focused on getting more and more information while they disreguard the Bible as truth. Students are told get good grades, do sports, band, clubs, arts, other extracurricular activities, pass the ACT/SAT or both, get into college, don’t fail, join a fraternity or sorrority, get an associates, go back, get a masters, get a job, get raises, after fourty years pay off your debts, work twenty more years, retire, be healthy and die at a ripe old age of a hundred and five. Since tomorrow isn’t promised there is no guarantee that anbody today can realistically carry out this american dream while pursuing houses, cars, a family and bettering society in general. I look through the obituraries from time to time and see that most people who are listed were in their sixties. Peoples lives are far too hurried. People get so busy with the living that they forget that they have always been dying – tomorrow isn’t promised and some get a real rude awakening of that fact. Being a good person isn’t going to save you if you don’t know Jesus. Following the law isn’t going to save you if you don’t know Jesus. Knowing Jesus personally, like/as a brother, a friend, a savior, a counselor is the one and only way. This is what we teach and believe.