Gotthold Lessing, one of the leading lights of the Western European eighteenth century Enlightenment, once said that,

"If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err in the process, and to offer me the choice, I would with all humility take the left hand, and say, ‘Father, I will take this one—the pure Truth is but for You alone’!”

What are we to make of Lessing's words?  If you've seen the movie "Matrix," you may recall a scene, early on in the movie, in which "Neo" meets "Morpheus."  After inviting Neo to sit down, Morpheus holds out his hand.  In it he has two pills.  One is red, the other is blue.  If you, Neo, take the blue pill, Morpheus says, your life will remain exactly the same.  But if you take the red, he says, you will enter into a journey in which you will see no end.  

As anyone who has seen this movie knows, Neo takes the red.  And his adventure begins.  Think about Lessing's "left hand" as the red pill, and "Truth" as the blue.  Though Lessing respects God's truth, the blue pill, he would rather have the red pill:  the journey.

We walk a delicate line between searching for truth and knowing that it is already there.  But we cannot do otherwise:  we're human beings.