The Advantage of Knowing

Reading the Bible today, I wonder how the authors could have reacted if they were told their writings would one day be ‘God’s word that He has forever exalted above His very name, settled in Heaven!’

You have seen Nehemiah or Ezra or Numbers. They were just mentioning who begot who! Some were just records being kept of the Israelite heritage. None of those guys knew it would one day be called ‘The Word of God.’

Notice that there were parts like in Isaiah or Jeremiah, were God literally told them to say specific words. But quite frankly, ask yourself, could such be counted as God’s holy word then;

Nehemiah 7:30-32 The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty and one. The men of Michmas, an hundred and twenty and two. The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred twenty and three.

Would it? Personally, I’d say it were just numbers, but later, it is said, that all scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)…

Even those digits are to be profitable in one way or another…but back to what I was saying. If Nehemiah knew that what he was recording was truly inspired of God, if David knee that His relation of favor being surrounded as a shield around him by God would be declared by millions millennia later, I think there would be another spring in his step on top of that which comes by the kingly office

Imagine if Hosea knew actually that beyond just going to buy his harlot wife back, he was actually Christ, helplessly running to rescue his bride the Church, never failing no matter how dumb the wife went back to harlotry, I am super convinced He would carry a specific degree of satisfaction and purpose beyond what no eye has seen.

Let me put it this way. Mary was told He was to be mother of the son of God. The son of God? Even if I was Mary! Eish! Obviously in our day and era, it’d be all over the gram…but, naturally, it’d be a great honor being the earthly parent to God’s own son. See Mary knew what she was to carry, while some of the earlier examples didn’t directly know what they were carrying or what they were part of.

Mary’s carrying Jesus doesn’t teach us to be excited. I imagined myself as Mary. It’s scary walking around with my huge belly bearing my creator. Even if I’d like to show off, I am also extremely CAREFUL! I’m carrying the God of the heavens and earth. I suddenly mature as I have a great responsibility!

Jesus is mentioned to have grown in stature and wisdom. But I believe, just like many parents have a role to teach, Jesus’ being able to stand to confront the pharisees at 12 was owed to Mary. She must have breastfed while praying. She must have wondered ‘What’s the best way to raise God?’ I believe it’s his parents who taught him in the way he must go, so that when he grew up, he never departed from it! What great stewardship & responsibility!

The prophets stewarded as well, yes! But had they known that they were not just writing to Israel but to all sons and daughters of Abraham…had they known that they were writing to a billion Christians…had they known their words would be quoted and devils flee…There would have been a deeper gratitude in them!

This is when I turn the spot light and point it at you. Do you know God’s plans for you? You’d have been those one of prophets…and only got to discover the extent of your impact 2000 years later after having been around Heaven. I’m trying to say, God can show you a glimpse of it.

Let me use this instead. Imagine you are Abraham Lincoln’s father. Imagine you knew that he’d be one of America’s greatest presidents a decade before you got him. Imagine you were Elon Musk’s grandfather. And then you saw the future of your grandson. Trust me, even if you were the poorest man on earth, you’d get a bounce. If your children tend to be heading towards death, you’d not allow it! Why? In one of them would come the man who’d be the richest on earth at a specific time!

When your grandchild comes around, you’d be speaking words of life over him. Contrary to whatever is going on in your life. If he failed in class, you’d say ‘You’re the richest man my boy!’ You’d not be shaken…for you’ve seen the future. You have KNOWN it!

I then wonder…have you seen yours? That song you’ve written, it’d be the one sang in the darkest of times by the world (forexample The Blessing during the first pandemic 2020 lockdown or Waymaker for the 2021) It’d be this weird thing you keep dreaming about, yet you don’t know that one day it’d be called an aeroplane, and billions of people could cross continental borders by it…a major shift in transportation!

Have you seen what you carry? Do you KNOW what you are?

The good news is, God the knower (if that word exists) of all things past and future is in you. He said He’d give you the treasures of darkness and riches of secret places! The future doesn’t have to be a mystery. Pharaoh dreamt of it, and Joseph interpreted it. Seven years before the famine hit, they knew. Jesus was also depicted in a prison with Joseph as the chief butler (or baker) 4000 years before he actualized on earth. John saw the very end of the earth and wrote it for us.

To know—as I conclude all this—isn’t just for the sake of us knowing. Like Mary, knowing teaches us, and prepares us to prepare for what is to come. The burden or responsibility for what’s to come is heavy, and if we don’t ready ourselves, it’d be seen as a problem.

Imagine a couple didn’t know they were expecting. Suddenly the lady woke up, and they discover they are having twins in the next hour. Where will the children sleep? Is the house baby proof? Have they bought toys? Do they have the finances to support two new lives? Has the work desk been cleared by the mother before she goes on leave? All these show a high level of unpreparedness.

But God doesn’t wish that for you. He says you have received an unction from high, and that you know all things (1 John 2:20) He doesn’t want you surprised. What will He gain if He kept truths or withheld good things from you? It might be useless letting you know about them only when you get to Heaven!

For this reason, David cries, ‘Satisfy while it is still early…that we might apply our hearts unto wisdom.’ (Psa 90:12) Emphasis is on early. This can help the couple about to receive twins to prepare adequately and not to panic as the example I just gave.

But beyond knowing about receiving mere twins, there’s a higher level, where God shows you what each of these children were created for. Now you discovering that will help you raise them right. You won’t call them names if God has told they are to rescue Israel from Pharaoh’s bondage. You are rebuked into self-discipline to ensure that you don’t screw up your own children’s destinies.

I personally I’m still meditating on all of this. A preacher said, ‘We’ve raised dead bodies having only read Apostle Paul’s letters. Imagine we had video sermons of him…?’ If I’m born of the incorruptible seed (which is the Word of God) myself, whatever power Paul moved in, I do too. My writings might seem targeted to very few readers, only to be unveiled that the millions they were meant to reach are still in the near future. That alone motivates me never to stop writing. I keep stewarding. I keep responsible.

In this position, we learn to pray very differently. We don’t go in for needs. We go in to actualize what no eye has seen. We look into the mind of Christ (which already knows all things) and inquire of it, the full understanding and knowing of the talents we have received, the children we have received, the names we have received, the mantles and prophecies we have received, so that when we meet God face to face, we can firmly agree; that the assignments He assigned each of us we fulfilled…that the talents He gave each of us were maximumly multiplied and utilized the way He wanted… that all the books He intended for us to write, we wrote in full…

So that none of us have regrets. So that none of us would say ‘I didn’t know.’ So that all of us can say we proved that which was good and acceptable and perfect will of God, both of us as individuals and us as a family & a mighty kingdom…

If you’ve ever been to high school, after sitting an exam, two things are most annoying. Either having KNOWN the right answer and having doubted that it was the ONE, or, having not known at all what the answer was! Let this not be you in Heaven!

Embrace the advantage of knowing!

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Ephesians 1:17-18 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints…