The Christian life is not just about knowing things. It is not about attaining lots of theological knowledge and having all the facts arranged in a neat little system in your mind. In this age of information there is a tendency for Christianity to look more like a philosophical school. Many Christians feel that the task is to learn more and more about God and the ways of God. It is of course vitally important to learn about God and his ways by studying the Bible and theology. But when we do this, we must not think that we will automatically grow as a result of doing this. Growth only takes place when you practice your faith. The Christian life is primarily about living by the Spirit. It begins with us yielding ourselves to God as living sacrifices. It is a process whereby God fulfils his mission in and through our lives by the power of his Spirit. It is a life lived in relationship with God where we exercise the prerogatives of the children of God. God calls us above all to love him and to love others. You can’t love an idea. You can only love a person of whom you have a real experience. I have done a lot of learning in my life, but all this learning has only profited me inasmuch as I have sought to practice what I have learned. Isaiah 61 portrays a life, not just a fact to believe. What is described here is what life is all about and unless your life is all about these things then you are not really living.
Ask God to lead you into a fuller experience of these things.
Read Isaiah 61 again
