Teach Us to Number Our Days Knowledge is Power

Teach Us to Number Our Days

Knowledge is Power

Knowledge is power.

It can be used for good and evil.

Knowledge is for producing faith in you

and those around you.

Without that faith,

knowledge is powerless for good.

You have heard it said,

if you have knowledge, you have power.

People don’t go to the unlearned to get answers;

they go to the educated.

There is an attraction to those

who have learned from experience.

Knowledge comes from more sources

then you and I could ever image…

Knowledge will change you…

Knowledge changes the world…

Knowledge has the power to

make good and bad changes…

The Forbidden Tree in the Garden of Eden

produced both good and evil fruit.

In Romans 12:2, we are challenged to be

 transformed by the renewing of our mind.

The renewed mind is a mind that

understands what God’s will is.

This knowledge of God’s will has tremendous power.

When I worked in the factory,

we had large metal cabinets

that displayed a sign Danger High Voltage.

  
The box looked very harmless,

but inside was a lot of power;

power that could operate and produce

thousands of coca-cola bottles an hour.

If the doors were left open

and a person reached in and touched the power,

it could kill them.

Paul understood that our knowledge of God’s will

is powerful and it, too, can serve as good and evil.

Paul warns us not to think of ourselves

more highly than we ought.

Many have discovered God’s will

and have forgotten that it came to them by God’s grace.

                 They have used their power

                    to condemn rather than edify.

              Others have thought their

            knowledge of God’s will

             put them above living it.

This power has hindered - rather than helped.

The knowledge of God’s will

is not meant to empower boasting,

but to empower faith.

  

Knowledge is for producing faith in you

and those around you.

Without that faith,

knowledge is powerless for good.

Scripture Reading

Romans 12:1-3 NIV

12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy,

to offer your bodies as living sacrifices,

holy and pleasing to God

 — this is your spiritual act of worship.

2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world,

but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is

 — his good, pleasing and perfect will.

3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you:

Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought,

but rather think of yourself with sober judgment,

in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.

Romans 10:17-18 NIV

 17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message,

and the message is heard through the word of Christ.