By Joyce Meyer - From the book New Day, New You: 365 Devotions for Enjoying Everyday Life by Joyce Meyer. Copyright © 2007 by Joyce Meyer. Published by FaithWords. All rights reserved.
For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. ~ 1 Corinthians 2:2 (KJV)
This is such a glorious Scripture. You and I try to know everything, and here Paul is telling us that he did just the opposite. Unlike us, who worry about all the things we don't know, Paul was trying to get rid of some of the things he did know. Why? Because he had discovered that, as the Bible teaches, sometimes knowledge can be aggravating (see Ecclesiastes 12:12). He had also discovered that knowledge can create pride, . . . [Yet mere] knowledge causes people to be puffed up (to bear themselves loftily and be proud) (1 Corinthians 8:1).
Sometimes the more knowledge we accumulate, the more problems we create. Often we plot and scheme and finagle to discover things that would be better left alone. Have you ever schemed to find out something that was going on and then when you did discover it, you sincerely wished you had stayed out of it? That is why Paul said that he had determined to know nothing but Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. Sometimes the more I think I know, the harder it is to follow God.
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Everyone has had the experience of learning. We all want to know more. Learning is fun! We're all also guilty of trying to discover things that we shouldn't have. We've all experienced that sorry feeling for doing so. We've also experience the other side of the fence when someone else plots & schemes behind our backs in order to hurt us. For me when that happened, I found that I couldn't stop obsessing over it. Someone invaded my privacy in the worst ways, on an ongoing basis, for the simple point of hurting me when I had done nothing to him. Knowledge does indeed hurt sometimes. Whether it's me using it in the wrong way toward someone else or myself, or someone else using it against me... it takes my focus of God.
Dear God:
Please help me be stronger and to know when to stop chasing knowledge and to focus on You. Help me to let go of knowledge that I don't need or that can hurt someone. Help me to let go of knowledge that other people have that they have used against me; or could use against me. Help me to stay focused on You always. In Jesus name, AMEN.
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