Things that we must do that God will not do – 2. Knowledge

This is not about qualifications and degrees and being clever.

“For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge …” (2 Peter 1 v 5)

Whereas I do believe growing in knowledge is achieved by walking in the ways of the Bible and I also believe growing to know God is vitally important through prayer. However there is a knowledge that must be added if we are ever going to walk within the divine nature. It is knowledge about ourselves.

Some people are really clever but have no awareness. They are spiritually blind to the fact that they need to ‘make every effort to add’ knowledge of how they are experienced by others. They do not see their character flaws and that goodness is dying in their life. This is why knowledge is crucial. They go through a crisis and never ask what can I learn from this? They are criticised maybe unfairly but never ask if there is a small nugget of truth in this criticism that can be learnt from? They lack knowledge. They have friends but they don’t ask their friends to speak truth to them and so they lack knowing how to grow in their faith.

We must get this knowledge and add it to our goodness.