If
the Bible is about God’s wisdom, then why should we read Tao Te Ching, which is,
at best, only about human wisdom? Why don’t we just read the Bible instead, and
forget about Tao Te Ching? Why should we settle more for less?
According
to Lao Tzu, less is more.
“To
guide a great country, we need a great ruler.
To
wage a successful war, we need good strategies.
To
live a life of harmony, we need letting life live by itself.
That
essentially means:
the
more efforts we exert, the more failures we experience;
the
more weapons we make, the more dangers we encounter;
the
more laws we enact, the more law-breakers we produce.”
(Chapter
57, Tao
Te Ching)
Understanding
human wisdom is the first step in the journey of a thousand miles towards
understanding God’s wisdom. Without human wisdom, God’s wisdom is even more
unfathomable and forever unintelligible to many.
Many
of us often overwhelm ourselves in our pursuit of God’s wisdom in the Bible
with its many books such that after a while we may end up giving up reading
it—and that is the result of more for less.
Lao Tzu, on the other hand, shows us the
importance of taking the first step, a small step, and one step at a time,
along the Way, and human wisdom will slowly and subtly unfold itself to each
and every one of us. So, beginning with less, we may get more in the long run.
“Accordingly,
we do not rush into things.
We
neither strain nor stress.
We
let go of success and failure.
We
patiently take the next necessary step,
a
small step and one step at a time.”
(Chapter
64, Tao
Te Ching)
So,
begin your first step to understand God’s wisdom through human wisdom.
Stephen Lau
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by Stephen Lau
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