TO
KNOW OR TO KNOW ABOUT?
1
Cor 8:1
Now
as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge.
Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
1
Cor 13:2
2
And
though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all
knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and
have not charity, I am nothing.
Certainly
ignorance is not a benefit in any situation but the Bible warns us that
there is a great difference between knowing and knowing about God.
We may be able to debate the most respected scholars but what benefit is that
if we do not know the Lord?
Thomas
a Kempis said:
“What good does it do to speak learnedly about the Trinity if, lacking
humility, you displease the Trinity? Indeed it is not learning that makes a man
holy and just, but a virtuous life makes him pleasing to God. I would rather
feel contrition than know how to define it. For what would it profit us to know
the whole Bible by heart and the principles of all the philosophers if we live
without grace and the love of God?
(from
Thomas a Kempis: The Imitation of Christ, PC Study Bible formatted electronic
database Copyright © 1999, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Are
you learned in the things of God? Wonderful! But do you truly know the
God of those things? Is he a confidant? Do you talk often together? Like Adam,
do you walk together in the cool of the evening? There is a great difference
between knowing and knowing about.
2
Tim 2:15-16
15
Study
to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth.
16
But
shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
Dear
Lord, let me choose to know you intimately rather than to know only about you.
AMEN
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