God’s wisdom
According
to Guinness Book of Records, the Bible is the all-time best-selling
book, as well as the most translated work in world literature. This indicates that many people do believe that the
Bible is a book of absolute truths and divine wisdom from God.
The
Bible is a book of wisdom based on Biblical truths that require faith to
believe in the authenticity of historical manuscripts reporting those events
that had already taken place.
”Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of
Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, Herod being tetrarch
of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and the region of
Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,” (Luke 3:1)
This Biblical faith is further attested to by human historical time scale: BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno
Domini—"in the year of our Lord"). Jesus Christ is a real
historical figure, and His birth is a very solid historical fact reported by
many historians.
Human wisdom
Tao Te Ching is
an ancient book of wisdom from China. This immortal Chinese classic was written
by Lao Tzu (translated as “Old
Master”) some 2,600 years ago. A sage born with white hair and full of wisdom,
he reluctantly revealed his vision of human wisdom in eighty-one short
chapters, succinctly expressed in only 5,000 words without any punctuation mark
in the original text. According to Lao Tzu, true wisdom can only be experienced
but not expressed in words; he states this explicitly in the opening lines of
the first chapter of Tao Te Ching:
“The Tao that can be spoken is not the
eternal Tao
The name that can be named is not the eternal name
The nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth
The named is the mother of myriad things”
The name that can be named is not the eternal name
The nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth
The named is the mother of myriad things”
(Chapter
1, Tao Te Ching, from the translation by Derek Lin, published by SkyLight Paths in 2006)
Both
human wisdom and God’s wisdom are essential to living as if everything is a
miracle, and you can’t have one without the other. The explanation is simple: “seek
and you shall find.” You must have the human wisdom first before you want to seek; without God’s wisdom, your search is
difficult and unfulfilling.
Tao
wisdom, the profound wisdom of Lao Tzu, may help you with your first step, just
as Lao Tzu said: “A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.” Get
the human wisdom to take your first step to pursue and understand God’s wisdom in order to live as if everything is a miracle.
Stephen Lau
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