Know It All part 2
You don't have to be a know it all in order to know it all. We have an unction from the Holy Spirit and we DO know all things. The ultimate truth of the universe: God is love and He loves you. Look at Ephesians 3:19, "And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with the fulness of God." That's the key--knowledge which passes knowledge. Not just head knowledge, but heart knowledge. Not just knowing something... but KNOWING it. In a real, true, experiential way. A man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument. Because no matter what you THINK... if I KNOW what I know then that's a whole different level. I like the idea of "Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so." I think if we read the Bible and get anything other than "Jesus loves me" out of it then we've really gotten lost somewhere. But the love of God is so much more than words on a page. It's so much more, even, than a feeling. Because love is a decision. When you don't feel happy, or when you don't feel worthy of love. When you don't feel good about things. God has decided to love you. No matter what. He moved into us--took up His dwelling place and His abode--and He's never moving out. He's right where He wants to be. Where He's CHOSEN to be. That's why (and how) we can know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that He loves us. He shows us every day in every way. And that's why it's so important to know what we know instead of trying to go around and be a know it all and prove other people wrong. I've never been in an argument where, when it was over, one person had completely come to the other person's side. My experience with arguing is that people just dig in deeper to their own positions. It becomes more important to defend what they think than to even hear what the other person is saying. People don't always listen to hear. Sometimes they just wait for their turn to talk. That's no good. That's not productive. But when you think you have it all figured out, you don't really have an inclination to let anything else in. Closed-minded. That's why I always Rant about keeping your heart by keeping it OPEN. Not closing it down in order to "guard" it. Keeping it open to love. Letting love flow into, and out of, it. When we know--with that heart knowledge that passes head knowledge--that God is love and He loves you, that's when we can love others with that same love. Because you can't give what you don't have. And you can only give what you do have. But you have to know what you have. Otherwise you'll spend (waste) your Three T's--Time, Talent, Treasure--trying to get something you think you don't have. Trying to be someone you're not. We know everything we need to know when we know (one more time) that God is love and He loves us. Love is what it's all about. Love is the only thing that matters. God and people. Loving God and loving people. Loving God BY loving people. When we know that, we can enjoy this gift of abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life that we've been given. Enjoy it... by giving it away! By sharing it. Because we know that love is giving!