“To be able to know anything is a gift from God.”

A thought by Mark Batterson, Richard Foth, and Susanna Foth Aughtmon (2015-04-28) from their book, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime (p. 140). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

One important thing in writing this blog is to find a thought that interests you but it also interests me. Now if you got this far then I must have quickened your interest and I’m glad I did. So many people think they are done knowing when they leave school but the reality is you will never be done until you die. The problem is many people die between their ears before they die physically and that is a great waist.

Now Marks says, “The human brain weighs three pounds. It is the size of a softball, and yet with it we have the capacity to learn something new every second of every minute of every hour of every day for the next three hundred million years. God has created us with an unlimited capacity to learn. What that tells me is that we ought to keep learning until the day we die.”

1 Corinthians 8: 2 says, “If anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.” (NKJV). We have not arrived yet that is why we must continue to know and reading is a great way to get to know, to learn.

Now I love to read. One of the purposes of this blog is to introduce you to some very interesting writers and their books. Dick says, “To be able to know anything is a gift from God. To find that knowledge by reading is a grand adventure. When we read about someone doing the impossible, we start to believe the impossible is possible. When we read of passion and triumph and failure, we see that no one is perfect. We need to know that imperfect people can lead imperfect lives and still impact the world around them in powerful ways. That lets us in.”

Please don’t stop learning. Find a book and start reading. A good place to start is the Bible and then go out and find other positive books and read them. Listen you have time to read. Why not start today.

So what book are you going to read today?

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