The question caught me by surprise. It was only a casual conversation meandering across a lot of subjects randomly. Eventually the question, “How do you know all that stuff?” The immediate response, “It’s my job to know stuff.”
Indeed! It is my job to know stuff.” I remember the compliment paid to one of my friends, “He knows a little bit about everything.” Seems better to me than the alternative: knowing a lot about nothing!
A major part of my job is to communicate “stuff.” Not just any stuff, but the things of God. Along the way, it is helpful to know about lots of other things as well, since truth is of God wherever one finds it.
That’s why I have spent my life studying—not just the word of God, but lots of other things along the way. Music and mathematics, chemistry and calculus, history and heritage, languages and leadership, ministry and missions. Abraham Lincoln said, “I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.” So will I.