Wisdom from the Spirit, 3/27/2011
- Just having a mental knowledge about God does not mean that we have come to know God. To know God is a matter of experience; it is something that can only be gained by undergoing various life experiences with God. It is something that takes not a few days or years, but our entire life.
- Actually if we are totally ignorant of something, we tend to be humble and are more eager to earnestly seek and search for the truth. The danger is when we know a little about something and our knowledge is not complete, but yet we think that we know it all — this can become the greatest hindrance to prevent us from seeking, searching and pressing on to full knowledge.
- Hence right at the beginning of his letter to the Corinthians, Paul set out to show the Corinthians that what they need is not more knowledge, but more spiritual experience. They do not need to acquire more mental knowledge, but they do need to experience more. And what is the greatest hindrance to their gaining more experience, but that this attitude that they already know it?
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