Knowledge

Hello everyone,

How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord.

Primary Text

“For this very reason, adding your diligence [to the divine promises], employ every effort in exercising your faith to develop virtue (excellence, resolution, Christian energy), and in [exercising] virtue [develop] knowledge (intelligence),” 2 Peter 1v5 (AMP)

To our faith, we are told to employ every diligence to add virtue to it, and then knowledge. Proverbs 19v2 (KJV) says “Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good: and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.” It isn’t good to be without the knowledge of God, or to have an improper knowledge of who God is. Hosea 4v6 (KJV) says “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to Me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” How are you dealing with the knowledge of God? Do you really know Him? Are you seeking to know Him more? Are you just casual about God? Jeremiah 9v23-24 (NLT) says “This is what the LORD says: “Don’t let the wise boast in their wisdom, or the powerful boast in their power, or the rich boast in their riches. But those who wish to boast should boast in this alone: that they truly know Me and understand that I am the LORD who demonstrates unfailing love and who brings justice and righteousness to the earth, and that I delight in these things. I, the LORD, have spoken!” Now more than ever before, it is important we know the God we serve. Paul for instance did not have a proper knowledge of God. In 1 Timothy 1v13 (KJV) he says “Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief.” Peter on the other hand had been with the Lord Jesus for sometime. Yet this conversation was recorded in Matthew 16v21-23 (NIV) “From that time on Jesus began to explain to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. “Never, Lord!” He said. “This shall never happen to You!” Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

Supplementary Text

“For I desire and delight in dutiful steadfast love and goodness, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of and acquaintance with God more than burnt offerings.” Hosea 6v6 (AMP)

Prayer

Our heavenly Father, we thank You so much for Your Word. Father, we are praying that You will grant unto us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You. Help us to grow in the proper knowledge of You. We know Your ways are not our ways neither are Your thoughts our thoughts. Help us to get on board with what You are doing, and not to be a stumbling block to Your work. Thank You Father for Your goodness, and for Your Spirit who is with us and in us guide us into all the truth, and for hearing us, for we pray, in Jesus name, amen.