“Yea they turned
back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel”
(Psalm 78:41)
In
an American restaurant, an elderly man was sitting behind two undergraduates
and the students were eating and complaining. 'oh, it is very difficult to be
educated.' The old man couldn’t bear it, so he tapped them on their shoulders
and ordered them to shut up. Then he said to them, 'if you think it is
expensive to be educated, try ignorance.' The old man wanted them to realize
that it is more expensive to be ignorant! Why?
Ignorance
will cost you your life, it extinguishes God’s light in the life of a believer
(Ephesians 4:18). The truth is that no believer can enjoy the benefit of his/her redemption in Christ if he is ignorant.
No
wonder Hosea 4:6a says: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…” this
implies that, God's people are not destroyed because they do not pray well, or
give well, or fast well enough. It is because they don't know their rights as
Children of God. It is often said in the world that what you do not know cannot
kill you, but in the realm of the spirit, what you do not know kills you even
faster.
Many
church folks have adopted the wrong approaches to life’s challenges and so
cannot get the result that they are expecting. They pray wrongly, live in
disobedience, make negative confessions, even imitate the unbelievers and
oftentimes, run to them for advice because they do not know what they possess as
children of God. They do not even know what God’s word says about their
situations.
Ignorance
will limit God in your life, to the extent that you forget who you are in
Christ and become a victim of inferiority complex. Gideon did not believe that
he was a “mighty man of valour” until God led him to his enemies' camp. Do not
run away from the devil but face him because your strength is in God.
Prayer/Confession:
I will walk in the fullness of God’s purpose for my life.
Further
Reading: Ephesians 4:18
Words of Wisdom: what you do not know is preventing you from what you can get in life.
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