Spiritual gurus say that what we know is a minuscule, how can I stay confident in today’s world knowing that I know nothing?

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By realizing that knowledge is ephemeral, relative, and ultimately useless, and all power and utility flows from God.

I am amazing when it comes to technology. I have built an incredibly useful body of knowledge that shades smoothly all over everything I consider interesting. It’s a neat toy, certainly one most people wish they had, when they can grasp it’s breadth and scope, and I consider myself privileged to have had the opportunity to build it.

But that’s nothing compared to God. Though the knowledge is mine, the opportunity to build it was a gift from God. Though the capacity to build it is mine, it’s really quite useless for anything other than helping people with. There’s no confidence that comes from it. I grapple with what this means for my career daily.

Confidence in the basics of being human never comes from knowledge, it comes from building up a propensity to act without knowledge, even if you have it. God is what determines success or failure, not knowledge. I say this as someone who has meditated his way into knowledge that cannot be communicated. It literally doesn’t matter how cool or useful it seems. Knowledge doesn’t guarantee success, it’s just that simple.

When non-spiritual people build knowledge, and then build their lives around it, what happens is that God allows and shelters their belief in it. This will work until they become spiritual, and God can determine at any time that someone who has no reason to believe, to be given a reason. And so spirituality forces you to confront the simple fact of human limitation head-on.

Even knowledge of spirit and God needs to be respected by God before it can be relied upon. For an illustration try the Book of Job. Job did everything right, and still God took everything away from him. There is no safeguard against Him. The Jews had multiple covenants specifying their relationship with their Lord and exactly what they could expect from Him and God still managed to give more than he bargained, yet not quite providing a fully-intelligible world.

It’s simply a fact of life that humans are humans, and God is God.