The Wisdom of Sheer Ignorance

  For I determined not to know any thing among you, 

save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.  

1 Corinthians 2:2

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Let us to-day be content to remain 

ignorant of many things while
we seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness : 

to-morrow, if not to-day, knowledge
and all other good things shall be added unto
us (St. Matt. 6.33 ;1 Tim. 4. 7, 8 ; 1 Cor.13. 12). 

Let us not exercise ourselves in matters
beyond our present powers of estimate, 

lest amid the shallows (not the depths) of science we make
shipwreck of our faith. 

To-day is the day of small things (see Zech. 4. 10) : 

let us to-day be content with the small things of to-day,

 knowing assuredly that all they who are Christ's are made
one with Him Who is the heir of all things
(St. John 17. 21—23 ; Heb.1. 2).

 Thus shall our path be as the shining light, 

that shineth more and more unto the perfect day (Prov. 4. 18),
while we go from strength to strength until
every one of us appear before God in Zion(Ps. 84. 7).

~ Seek and Find,p.29,Christina Rosetti ~