What If The Things We Think We Know Aren't So?

Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.
  - Proverbs 3:5-6

NASA announces the discovery of a planet 23 million light years away. We might do well to ask many questions about this and how it helps us. Is it even a real discovery? Those who financed this big ol' x-ray telescope, the taxpayers, certainly hope the observers aren't being fooled by space ghosts or something like that. It is a good exercise for all those who think we know a thing or two to occasionally ask if we actually know what we think we know. The warning from Proverbs today is to not lean on our own understanding. Things we think we know may not be so! However, this verse is not, I think, a call to simply doubt everything we have been taught in schools or in books. It would be easy to become a science denier of everything, but doubting everything pretty much leaves us with nothing.  

It is that first line of our scripture this morning that leads us to understanding: trust in the LORD with all your heart. 

Bucky