I know how to love. I know how to make great choices with love. I know the reasons to love and how to fight for it. I know the things I need to do in order to maintain love. Love is an action and I know the actions that demonstrate love. I know the wonderful potential of love. I know how I'd like to be loved. I know that I will gain nothing from any action if I do not have love in my heart. I know the patience of love. I know love's kindness. I know that love is selfless and takes its time and does not keep score. I know that love forgives. And protects. And hopes, perseveres, and never fails (1 Corinthians 13:1-8). I know these things and more because I know God.
They say knowledge is power. I do not believe them. They say that knowing something can take you far. It is believed that the acquisition of more knowledge will set you free. It can help you soar among the stars and open you up to wonderful things. But simply knowing something is incomplete. Knowing the formulas mean nothing until you apply them on the test or in the lab. Knowing how to write does not mean a novel will magically appear with your name on it. Knowing the right things to say may not prevent foul daggers of hate to escape your tongue. Knowing the right things to eat does not enable you to shed the excess weight. Knowing that love can conquer all does not empower you to weather the storms of a rocky relationship. Knowledge is important, but it alone does not provide the power needed to live a life according to your purpose.
Knowledge is not power. It is only potential power. Knowledge is converted into power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end. And it is multiplied exponentially when that definite end begins with love. Knowledge can only aid you when you use it. It can only allow you to overcome your obstacles when you use it to overwhelm your problems with plans that create decisive actions. God wants us to have knowledge (Hosea 4:6-7). He desires that we seek it with all of our hearts (Proverbs 18:15). He wants us to know Him and fear Him out respect that He is the One and true Only God (Hosea 6:6). God also desires that we apply this knowledge to help us become all that He has intended for us to be. He wants us to create definite plans of action of love to reach the destination He has planned for our lives. God gave us the knowledge of His wonderful grace, but left it up to us to empower ourselves to work out our own salvation with actions that please Him (Philippians 2:12).
I want to have a powerful life. I want to love with power and help empower others to love on purpose and with purpose. I want the power that God has placed within me to shine through everything that I do. I want the power of my words to be a reflection of knowledge I have of God. I want to live out His way with fear and trembling before Him because I have knowledge that He is the source of everything. He is love. I know love. I know how to love because he showed me how to love (John 3:16). There is no greater application of knowledge being power than when God sent an example for our lives to model. That is why I know love. I have knowledge that it can do all things and trust all things. It hopes, forgives, it is kind and unselfish. I want to seize the opportunity to turn this knowledge into power. And live each day with the definite end of putting love into action. It is the potential power of the love I know.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank You once again for Your power. Thank You for knowledge of Your Son Jesus Christ that You sent to empower us with His love. Thank You for helping us grow in You and providing a way to get to You. Lord, we need Your help as we travel this journey of life. We need You to continue to bless us with the knowledge of Your awesome power. To You alone belongs the glory and praise. In Your precious and Holy Name I pray. Amen.
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