Life does go by, so fast, it's like speeding down the highway ...the road of life, and everything passing by with hardly a glimpse of it.

It's like that 100 mph fastball ...we barely see it!!

We live in the age of information ...with so much out there, we can't remember all the old because it is being so quickly replaced with the new.

Those whose task it is to learn, strive to keep up, wanting to keep pace with all the new discoveries.

Those who compete to rise to the ranks of teachers ---whether professors, scientists, corporate rivals, political officials, or the media ---they all strive to lead, discover, report, and be the first. They want to make a name for themselves.  And we often feel if we are going to be acknowledged, we must follow them.

It's seemingly not good enough to think the old was good enough.  The thirst for advertising brings us to want to replace the old, because the fact that there is always that tendency to try something new. 

And when that same concept enters into political agendas and what governs our nation, we compromise away from reason. The new reason becomes to not lose pace ...to be up with the times, and to not be ignorant.

But, a proverb is supposed to be a wise saying ...and I don't adhere to all proverbs, but to the Book of Proverbs: 

"Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil."  

And though most Romans were not wise enough to recognize Jesus for who He is, the Apostle Paul wrote to all that be in Rome, beloved of God:  

"Be not wise in your own conceits."