We’ve all heard of megabytes, gigabytes, and terabytes. These measures of data storage capacities mean something when we’re buying phones, flash drives, or new computers.
I remember when I bought my first 1 gigabyte hard drive. I thought, “Wow, I will never need another hard drive again. Today, I have multiple terabytes of storage on both my home and office computers.
But have you heard of petabytes, exabytes, and zettabytes. A petabyte is 1,000 terabytes? If not, you soon will. The growth of stored human knowledge is exploding at such a rate, the use of such measures has become a necessity. Just so you know, an exabyte is 1,000 petabytes, and a zettabyte is 1,000 exabytes. According to a report released by CenturyLink the total store of human knowledge today is somewhere around 8 zettabytes. Just how much information is that. It is the equivalent of 18 million libraries of congress.
With such a vast wealth of knowledge and information available to us today, you would think modern man would be the wisest in history. We are certainly knowledgeable. We have acquired great expertise. We’ve made spectacular advancements in many fields of study. But are we wise?
Can we solve our most fundamental problems? Are we better equipped to handle what life throws at us? Are we happier and more fulfilled? Surprisingly, the answers to these questions come from a letter that’s nearly 2,000 years old.
In James 3, verses 13 through 18, he writes about the difference between true wisdom and the false wisdom of the world. All of or learning doesn’t necessarily make us wise; it may have only made us well educated fools. Join us Sunday as we look at James’ three tests to tell the difference between true wisdom and worldly wisdom.