Thread by @zeal_a

Here’s a short illustration on a very valuable point that’s been instrumental in changing my thought processes.

It’s simple and well known but not often applied deliberately.

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1. I was once ill with an unknown ailment and someone who I didn’t know & had never met promised that he’ll perform a free surgery on me. I didn’t even know if he was a doctor or soldier.

Did I need surgery? Unknown.
Can he do it? Unknown

Unknown ailment. Unknown person

2. How much trust should I have on him given the unknown unknown situation?

2nd situation: if the ailment is known (malaria for example), then irrespective of who is making an offer for surgery, I’ll obviously decline.

Knowing something can aid making more efficient decisions

3. One known in an unknown unknown situation increases trust and makes both the interaction and decision making significantly more efficient

If I know what the person is and yet I don’t know the ailment, I can still interact more productively with the person

4. It’s easier to trust his area of expertise even if it doesn’t relate to my situation.

Best scenario is having a known person with a known area of expertise working on you in the known area of need

That’s what we do when we have headaches & see a doctor instead of a mechanic

5. So here’s the point of this:

There’s a trust in an unknown unknown which most that are polite will call reckless but others will call stupidity. It’s blind and forces you to accept whatever outcome whether desirable or not & It makes you powerless. strips you of power.

6. There’s a trust in a known which is what forms the basis of a relationship. From questions comes understanding and the understanding breeds trust.

This trust fills you with confidence, power & satisfaction and if things don’t turn out how you want, the understating comforts

7. In a relationship, one of the first things we do is “get to know each other” and so anyone who claims to want a deep and honest relationship but refuses to be known is either a fraud or insincere.

How much more God?

8. How do you let yourself be tricked by some ignorant pastor somewhere that he’s the best to teach you about an unknown that he doesn’t know and claims no one else can know?

Will you send your kids to be taught in a school when the teacher says the subject can’t be known?

9. The sky is large enough for all the birds, the oceans large enough for all fish and the universe for all planets. Yet each has a unique appreciation for their own experience of it.

There’s enough God for all us.

But of course, knowing what God is marks the beginning

10. In everything you acquire in life, wisdom is the principal acquisition and while you’re acquiring, make sure you use the wisdom to acquire knowledge and understanding. According to Proverbs.

As much as possible, avoid making decisions in unknown unknown situations

11. Without knowing WHAT God is, it’s quite impossible knowing WHAT you are (regarding his image) and so, how do you trust Him when IGNORANCE creates an unknown unknown situation.

How are you satisfied living without a desire to know more?

12. Faith in the unknown will be generally subjugated to faith in a known but yet, BOTH are valid.

Choose you this day who you will serve between a God that you are in a relationship with and in the process of knowing or one that is a distant, unknown, irrational “commander”