Growing in Knowledge

If we are really God's kids, then humility demands that we give each other some space to grow up into God.

God isn't demanding we all have a perfect knowledge of Him...He is looking for us to want to grow in our knowledge of Him. Someone who says what they see about Him doesn't have to have every theological string nailed down.

The fact that God is infinite means He is beyond knowing. If I could totally know Him, then He could be contained in my knowledge. God is not that knowable...thank God. It will take an eternity to get to know Him...which means heaven won't be boring.

If someone writes a song or delivers a message about God and it touches the edges of who He is and moves the hearts of people to explore more of who He is, then it is a profitable song or message. Just because the theology isn't all clearly nailed down in your mind or in the mind of the majority doesn't make it anti-god, false, evil, or misleading.

Falsely believing you have a lock on the right theology is probably the most arrogant and misleading reality there is. That is what leads to false religion. Fearfully staying in the boundaries of what you think everyone agrees on about God is what leads to a lukewarm, bored, and dull body of believers. We need to grow in our knowledge of Him.

Even if I did have a perfect lock on theology, if that perfect knowledge and understanding didn't express itself in patience, kindness, extending the benefit of the doubt...etc.... It would be wasted understanding.

The church is being misled to division and pride. Don't fall for it. So many arguments Jesus isn't having, and so many ignoring the conversation Jesus died, and now lives, to have. So much external and so little internal. Peace is being taken from the earth, starting with the church, and so few care. It is great to stand for truth, but you can't lose truth in the stand. If you feel led to defend the God who says He is love, you cannot suspend love to do it.

We are clearly in the time of His return and He is coming like a thief. Can we see what is being stolen?

1 Cor 13:1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

2And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

3And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

4Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

5does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

6does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

9For we know in part and we prophesy in part.

10But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

12For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

13And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.