🧐Knowledge Tested🫨

 Ignorance is a choice, knowing God is the knowledge wherewith we fly to heaven.  

We can have no knowledge of that which does not exist. God has a perfect knowledge of all His works. Human knowledge is very limited, and is mostly gained by observation and experience. 

Knowledge is knowing. As spring begins bugs and bees come out. There is a bee that is called a carpenter bee. They drill a  perfect ⅜ inch diameter round hole. The male carpenter bee cannot sting while the female can. How do you tell the difference? Males have a white face and females a black face. If you were to grab hold of the male you would not get stung. Now you know the rest of the story as Paul Harvey would say. Mark Chapter 4 is one of my favorite chapters. It’s a chapter that ends up with a test of the knowledge of trust being taught. Jesus says let us go to the other side then Jesus and His disciples entered a ship and began their journey. All is well at first. Jesus heads off to the rear of the ship and goes to sleep. Then a storm comes upon them. The disciples fight hard but the storm overtakes them. They are in real trouble before they ever go back to the rear of the ship where Jesus is still asleep. Asleep? How can this be possible? The ship is rocking, water is splashing everywhere, it is a ruff ride but Jesus doesn’t wake up. Why is this? I believe it was a test from what the disciples should have learned. Jesus plainly said “Let us pass over unto the other side.”  What did that mean?  It meant exactly what Jesus said. Jesus didn’t say let’s see if we can make it to the other side. Our Bible tells us that we are ALL sinners. 

Romans 5:12 (KJV) Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: Not a few or some but not you. Oh no it is plain “all have sinned” When Jesus told His disciples to get into the ship to go to the other side He meant that they would arrive on shores at the other side. No matter how bad of a storm they would come in contact with. I look at it as a short view of our lives. No matter the storms in this life that will take place, it will always be more than we want. Some will be umbrella storms; those are storms that we will have some protection. Others will be almost more than we can bear. Oh but the storms that rock our boat, coming in on uu will test our knowledge. In 2004 a 21 year old young man was on his way home when an awful rain and wind storm began. He continued on his way with the rain beating on his windshield to the point it was hard to see. The roads slippery from the rain cause him to lose control. He ran off the road and hit a tree head on. His lungs were punctured and before they could fly him to a trauma hospital he died. On that stormy night a storm hit the home of a mother and father. Their only child lost his life. Just as it was the night of that storm as the disciples fought so hard but failed, so did this man and woman. Where was Jesus? He was right there in the storm as He was with those disciples. He can and does calm the storm. So what was the answer of the storm? Mark chapter 5 the very first words.

Mark 5:1 (KJV) And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.

That’s why our knowledge must be in Christ Jesus. My close friend told me just a few days ago he was ready and can’t wait to see heaven. You may ask how could he say that? Because of his knowledge of who Jesus is and what Heaven is like. 

We can have no knowledge of that which does not exist. Know Jesus, know peace. No Jesus, no peace.