Your Spiritual Journey
Knowledge
Have you ever considered those things in your life that you are really really good at – and yet the opposite … you’re really really bad at?
For example. As a manufacturers sales rep, I love going to trade shows, doing presentations, dealer training, and working on various purchase contracts. But I don’t enjoy the travel to get there!
I love to eat, and yet have no desire to learn how to cook. But I promise you this, if you make me a dinner I will clean your kitchen with a tooth brush to show my gratitude!
Recently, I was reminded of another “opposite” character trait. Gardening! Now, know this, I will labor hard in a garden, building it, digging it, and yes… weeding it! (I get gold stars on that task every time I do it!) But when it comes to the variety of plants, where they can grow, pollinate, populate, generate. suffocate… I become the hard labor in the corner with the name tag “Yes Dear!”
On a trip to a large regional nursery for our spring planting, I really got the education. We described our house and it’s lay out to the sun, the shaded areas, the bright areas and it was as if the attendant had been to our home a hundred times and knew exactly what we needed and where. She recommended plants like “Shinny in Spirit”, “Kitten Around Catmint.” “Sombrero Salsa Red Coneflower”, “Carnations Purpureus” and talked about “deadheading” the plants and the differences between perennials and annuals… and then asked us if we were “native people?!” What????
Ok! I’m now lost! Shovel please!
Sometimes when new Christians are just beginning their faith journey we want to flood them with all 66 books, 1,189 chapters, and over 784,000 words of the bible…. in 20 seconds or less! It’s not a measure of knowledge and how quickly we learn that saves us, but the heart of an obedient and loving faith. The knowledge, the study of God’s word, simply makes that faith stronger much like the beautiful flower bed makes the property brighter!
Proverbs 18:15 reads, “The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, for the ears of the wise seek it out.”
Some things I’m fine in not learning…. Others, I have an unending thirst for more than just a tooth brush and a shovel! Studying God’s word and His will for our life is one of them!
Mark
