Today I received a publication from our denomination that shared a sobering statistic: "Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003." That strikes me as good and bad news both. As an information junkie, I love having access to information that I used to have to ride my bike to the local library to find. I love being able to Google a word and get pages of information when I'm preparing a sermon. But the downside is that it is like going to an unending buffet. When there is so much food, the good stuff can get lost. When there is so much information it sometimes becomes hard to find the wisdom. So much of our information today is not in the form of facts but opinions and editorials. Newspapers announce the results of polls as though they define reality. My prayer is that we continue to pursue ways of discovering the Wisdom of God in the midst of the avalanche of info.
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Wed, November 24, 2010
by Roger Jenks