Are you confused too? | Knowers and Believers

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I love rules (strange, right?). I always love to know the rules and regulations not necessarily so that I may follow them, but to simply know how far inside or outside the line I might find myself at a particular point in time.

There is a difference between knowing and believing, and I  am quite convinced that most of us do not fully distinguish between these two. We seem to think that we believe something, even though we simply have knowledge of that thing.

For example,

As a Christian, you know that God is your Father, you know that cattle on a thousand hills belong to Him, but when you are broke or troubled in any way, do you respond to that situation like a child of a president (God is the president of the world) would?

Children of prominent people would rarely behave the way most of us do when we are broke; in most cases they'd be thinking of when they can get to talk to their father.

Our actions usually reveal whether we simply know (about) something or we surely believe that thing. Me knowing a rule doesn't mean that I am going to act on it. I feel that the devil has lied to most of us, because we walk around saying that we believe in God, yet we simply know God. 

This best explains it:

Imagine one Sunday morning they invite a preacher to your church, who comes and starts cursing the name of God, he curses it a second time and a third time. As if that's not enough, he calls on a random lady and starts to kiss her in front of the congregation. I don't think any sane congregation would allow this drama to continue to the extent of the crazy "preacher" undressing the lady. 

The congregation, at the very least, will walk out and never come back to that church. Yet when this same act is done on our TVs or in the cinema, we don't feel irritated at all  (gotten from the movie The Power of the Air)

How is it that the very person who can't stand this act in church, can stand it an hour later when they get back home? Is it because we certainly believe that God is in and dwells in the church, and we simply know (and don't necessarily believe) that we ourselves are the temple of the Holy Spirt? Otherwise, we would react the same way in the cinema or our sitting room when sexual scenes are aired into our face as we would in the church, since we believe that a Holy God not only dwells in church but also in us!

We can tell if we believe or simply know something by our actions, because knowing doesn't cause us to change but believing does. Every single decision we make each day tells us if we simply know God or believe in Him.

It's very sad, because many of us believe we are Christians yet we are just confusing the word believe and know. 

Let us pay attention to our actions this week and see which areas we need to change from simply knowing to believing.

Another amazing Wednesday Fam.

I can't wait for next Wednesday to share yet another article.

God bless you.