Know It All part 1
There's a difference between being a "know it all" and wanting to know it all. Being a "know it all" is having an attitude of "you can't teach me anything. I don't need any help." Wanting to know it all is a search for truth. One is going to get you into a lot of trouble. The other, I think, is a noble pursuit. Having said that, let me say this: "But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things" (1 John 2:20). That's key. Because that unction from the Holy One is that still, small voice deep inside us that says, "I love you," with every beat of God's heart in our chest. That's the whole point. The whole deal. God's love for us, in us, and through us, and as us. That's the sum total of the whole thing. God loving us and us loving God back by loving each other. That's what we know--on the deepest level--and that's what we need to know. Now watch this: "And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know" (1 Corinthians 8:2). It is when we think we have it all figured out that we get into trouble. Like old Rowdy Roddy Piper used to say, "Just when you think you have all the answers... I change the questions!" When we think we have it all figured out, that's when we stop looking. Stop seeing. That's when we close ourselves down to what is available. We settle for things. "Whelp. This is as good as it gets." We stop exploring. We stop testing the height, and length, and depth, and breadth of God's love for us. Because we reach a place where we're "comfortable." Or, perhaps, comfortably numb. We think what we've got is all we'll ever be able to have. When, in truth, what we've got is all we'll ever need! We have been blessed with all Spiritual blessings in the heavenly Christ. We've been given all things that pertain to life and godliness. Everything we need is already in us. That's what we need to know. And that's ALL that we need to know. I don't understand everything that happens in my life. I'm pretty empathetic. I can usually see all the sides of a story or situation. But I don't always see the big picture. I'm working on always looking for it. I'd rather try to know it all, and let what I know be enough, than be an know it all and think I've got it all figured out. One more memory verse for tonight, and this is kind of the one I based my ministry on when I started Word Without Walls. "For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified" (1 Corinthians 2:2). If I know Jesus... than I know what I need to know. Because God is love. Jesus is God in the flesh, love in a body. God in OUR flesh. Love in OUR body. You can't give what you don't have. And you can only give what you do have. So if you know anything... you need to know what you've got. Who you are. So you can give what you've got. So you can be who you are. And, listen, realistically it's a never-ending life long journey into the heart of the matter. We know it all, but we are continually learning how to understand what we know. A journey into the heart of the matter is a journey into the heart. God's heart beating with love in our chest. That's what it's all about. That's what we know, deep down, and that's all we really need to know!