Article March 10, 1973 Issue

Insight

HOWARD GREKEL

We all frequently yearn for more insight, more understanding of the inner nature or real character of things, events, and people. To appreciate and understand human relationships and achieve a sense of personal worth, a purpose in life, a reason for living—all this requires insight.

In business and technical work there is need to foresee and foretell events, detect errors in reasoning, originate designs and plans. To many, this insight means understanding and adjusting to the limitations imposed by their surroundings or their own abilities. But to others, insight is finding out the unlimited nature of God's creation, including their own capabilities, and building on that knowledge.

If we look to human capacity as a personal characteristic, looking for our capabilities could depend on merely humanly optimistic thinking. That approach may have some merit, but it is like digging a well only until water is first reached. To get more capacity, we must dig deeper. To dig deeper into the source of our abilities, to discover and develop the acumen we need and wish for, we must recognize that the source is God. We then tap a boundless reservoir of spiritual understanding.

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