HOW DEEP ARE YOU?

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." - Thomas Huxley

 

Study

Author David McCullough has described an exercise Louis Agassiz, born in Switzerland in 1807 taught students. It came to be called, "the incident of the fish." Agassiz presented students with a dead fish, as he interviewed them. He told them to look at the fish, then, he would leave them. Students were left, wondering what to look at or learn. We learn much about this activity; from the experience of Samuel Scudder (one of Agassiz many students). At first, he could see nothing but a lifeless fish. But Agassiz kept encouraging, "Look, look, look," and Scudder began to see even more, things that he previously ignored - the experiment lasted three days. Scudder described the experience as a turning point in his life, which opened up a new world. It was a legacy, "of inestimable value, which we could not buy, with which we cannot part." Agassiz was teaching the importance of study, examination, digging deeper, not being content with the obvious.

Learning and studying, beyond what everybody else does not only make you different, but also opens you to a broader view than what everyone else sees. For example, Christianity is not just a religion based on the study of the bible. A true Christian looks beyond it, then creates a lifestyle surrounded with faith that rightly suits the true meaning of Christianity. Many people are casual Christians today. They have shallow or superficial knowledge of God's Word.

Today, make sure that you are not content with a 'shallow' faith, that you are dwelling on, and getting deeper in the things of God. Take your relationship with Him seriously. Dig into the Word. Pray and seek Him for a deeper revelation. Receive the grace He offers you through Jesus, today and every day. Allow Him to change your life in a radical way.