In the course of a conversation I was having with my wife, I jokingly quoted a line from one of the Shakespear plays we all had to read in school. And that, of course got the gears creaking around in my little head.
I started thinking of the Apostle Paul. By all accounts, he was a very smart and well educated man. I've even heard that he was one of those 'beautiful mind' types and that he had the equivalent of several doctoral degrees. Suffice it to say that he was a very smart man.
I think that's why God chose Paul to go to Athens. That was, at the time, the hub of intellectualism. Who else could have gone toe to toe with some of the greatest minds of the time.
I think in Acts chapter 17, we can see the value of a well rounded education. Paul was able to speak intelligently to the men in Athens, even quoting their own poets (Acts 17:28).
God put a mind and a thirst for knowledge in us for a reason. The more we learn and read, the more we can see the depths of God's absolute genius. He gave such beautiful gifts to different people who discover ways to inspire us and ways to look into deep space and who can find the words to describe or the skill and imagination to draw and paint God's glorious creation.
God is AWESOME!
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