When I was young, I always thought that when I became older I would be really REALLY smart.   It seemed that the old folks knew it ALL.   I can safely say that I know a lot more than I knew when I was young.  But oddly enough, the older I get, the more things I find that I don't know.  When I was young, I didn't know what I didn't know.  And now I know a LOT of things I don't know about

Take for instance the issue of going to a church building.  If someone had asked me when I was young, why I go to church, the simple answer would have been because my mother told me too.  When I got a bit older, I would have said something about the Bible telling us not to forsake assemblies ourselves together.  Then a friend posed a question:  Do we HAVE to attend a church building weekly in order to assemble with other believers  I have to say that up to that point, I had NEVER heard of such a thing as NOT going to 'church'.   

I have realized that a lot of what I believe were (for me) traditions passed on from generation to generation in our culture.  I had no idea if these things were biblical or not, and it never occured to me that I needed to question what I was taught.   I looked to those older, presumably wiser and those with more education to teach me and what they said, of course, SEEMED to be biblical. 

So now in my mature age, I see there are many things yet for me to learn.  Looking back on the elders I grew up with, they seemed so wise and sure of themselves.  I know I am wisER, yet I don't feel I have arrived at that place of feeling that suredness.

In the meantime, I'll do the best I know with the knowledge and understanding that I have.  When I learn better, I'll do better. 

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