Seeking Knowledge

Seeking Knowledge

“For the Lord grants wisdom! From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.”

Proverbs 2:6 NLT

“For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will fill you with joy.”

Proverbs 2:10 NLT

“Choose my instruction rather than silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold. For wisdom is far more valuable than rubies. Nothing you desire can compare with it.”

Proverbs 8:10-11 NLT

“A mocker seeks wisdom and never finds it, but knowledge comes easily to those with understanding.”

Proverbs 14:6 NLT

“In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone.”

2 Peter 1:5-7 NLT

What do you think of when you hear the word “knowledge”? For me, I think of those people who have masters degrees and know so much about their field of work. I also think about the preachers and pastors who know the Word of God, and also I think about my father-in-law. To me, he knows so much about God’s Word and about almost anything else you could imagine...building houses, electrical work, wood working, furniture making, cars, plumbing, politics...I mean, anything! 

But what does it mean to have knowledge? Is it really something that we have to strive for in our everyday life or is it God given? What comes from having knowledge? 

Now, I’m not talking about worldly knowledge...or knowledge that you get from going to school. I’m talking about the knowledge of God. 

In all of the scriptures above we can see that knowledge will bring us joy and peace. Understanding and being humble will also follow. “For the Lord grants wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.” 

It’s one thing to have knowledge from the world, but it’s a totally different feeling when you have the knowledge of God. 

James 3:17 “The wisdoms from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.” 

Going to college and getting a degree is something that isn’t just handed to you. You have to work for it. My sister in law is a pharmacist. She went to school for a number of years to get her doctorate in Pharmaceutical...that knowledge she gained from all of those years of school aids her in her job as a pharmacist. That kind of knowledge she had to work for, every single day. 

Is gaining God’s knowledge the same thing? I personally believe that it is. We have to work at our relationship ship with God on a daily basis. We can’t expect to go 50% in with God and expect him to reward us like we’ve been giving I’m 100%. Just like in anything else we do. Our job, we can’t only do half of the work and expect to get all of the praise like we did all of the work. But when we ask God for knowledge and wisdom he will give us what we need. 

“If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking.” (James 1:5)

In your life can you say that with the knowledge you have right now, that it is pure, gentle, open to reason and full of mercy and good fruits? The knowledge God gives us will in turn help us with the things we struggle with. Patience, anger, greed, bitterness and jealousy. How? Because God is the opposite of all of those things. God is gentle, kind, understanding, merciful, loving, sufficient to all of our needs....and if it comes from God then it is good. 

I want my life and the things I do to reflect God. To reflect his goodness, his mercy, his love and kindness. I want to have the knowledge of His Word and to be like Him. And I’m so thankful that all I have to do is seek after Him each day and to ask for His help and for his wisdom and understanding so I can be like Him. If we ask it, he is faithful and just to give it when we have the right intentions with what we ask. 

I want the knowledge of God to be overflowing in my life. If you want all of what comes with God’s knowledge...peace, understanding, joy, mercy...then ask Him for it. His word will not return void...what he gives us and what he offers will not fade away. That’s the kind of God I trust in to fulfill all of my needs. What about you?