Everlasting October 28, 2025 Devotional

MATTHEW 7:3-5 | ³ Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye but do not notice the log in your own eye? ⁴ Or how can you say to your neighbor, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while the log is in your own eye? ⁵ You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye.

Today we continue our list of the inherent limitations of human knowledge.

5. Human wisdom faces the generational challenge: it must be passed on or lost. Notice that we can now store unlimited data, but information is not wisdom and every new generation must learn and assess the truths of earlier generations. This learning and assessment is usually partial and flawed.

6. Particularity generates a unique but limited angle of vision. Sociology stresses that our viewpoints are shaped and misshaped by gender, race, and social location. We only see the world from an influenced, if not sometimes determined, position.
7. Narcissism invites a blindness about ourselves. As Jesus points out in His famous 'speck and log' remark, we see others’ flaws far easier than our own.
8. As the world changes, much knowledge becomes obsolete.
   9. As we age and re-examine our lives we all notice decisions which we were confident in when we made them, which we now regret.
   10. All our education both forms and malforms us. This becomes evident when we have discussions with others who bring diverse knowledge backgrounds to the debate.

Do you agree with these additional limits?

Gracious God,

Help me transcend my limits through dialogue with others and attention to Your eternal truth.

Amen.