“The longer I live, the more I find I don't know”
“We’re paddling on the edges of the possibilities of grace”…Leonard Ravenhill
The last few weeks have been an interesting and intriguing time in my life. Changes in lifestyle and mindset seem to come at the most obvious times yet come completely unexpected. Needless to say I have learned a lot in the last month. The question I wrestle with though is does it matter?
I have been leading a devotional group of counselors throughout the weeks and am very pleased with how these young men of God are doing. There is so much talent and so much potential in them. That coming from me and 10 years of leading various groups is a pretty big statement. A couple weeks ago though one amazing female counselor said that it seemed kind of intimidating with me as a devo leader to the guys because I graduated from Bible College. The observation kind of stuck with me as it’s something I have heard before with people in Bible studies under my Father or Grandfather. I pondered that statement a lot wondering what does this knowledge mean to me and what does it do for me? The more I thought about it though the more I realized it’s not about how much I know about God, it’s about what I do with it. The knowledge is a means to an end, the end being a closer relationship with God and bringing others to that point. People spend their entire lives trying to find out the mysteries of life only to waste it all with no understanding of the love of an almighty God. We are trying to understand the divine only to find out how small we really are and how great God is for having mercy on us. The point is not how much I know, I’ll never even come close to knowing it all. The point is why and how this knowledge is changing me.
“The question is not were you challenged…the question is were you changed?”…Leonard Ravenhill
Signed
The Unsilent Pastor’s Kid
PS. If you can’t tell I have been listening to Leonard Ravenhill lately, look his sermons up on YouTube he has some great stuff
