Luke 11:52 KJV
Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
DAILY READING Acts 26:1-18; Ruth 3-4; Psalm 48
Some time ago in the news, there was a story of a poor homeless 60 year old man in Salt lake City Utah, who had inherited money but didn’t know it. He went about pushing trolleys and sleeping in parks, not realizing he was rich. He had spent almost three decades living rough, in Salt Lake City, pushing all his belongings in a dilapidated shopping trolley. Unknown to him, his rich elder brother on his deathbed had requested that all his estate should be handed over to his homeless brother. But no one knew where he could be found. So a relative engaged private investigators, to search for him. It took the investigators many months before they could locate him.
The down-and-out man was eventually found by private investigators wandering around a park in Salt Lake City. He was left in shock when he was told he had a great inheritance from his brother, whom he hadn’t seen in 15 years. The investigators took him out to lunch, which would be his first proper meal in 25 years.
Though this man had come into great inheritance months earlier, he had still lived poor and homeless, simply because he didn’t know he was rich. He had no idea what belonged to him. Though he was wealthy, ignorance kept him from accessing his inheritance.
This illustrates, how sometimes as Christians, we go about pushing and suffering in life due to lack of knowledge. Hosea 4:6 says ‘My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.’ Knowledge is the key to accessing our inheritance from God. Psalm 82:5 says, because they know not, neither do they understand, they walk on in darkness and all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
That man in Utah was rich, but because he did not know it yet, he could not access it. A wise man said, there is no mountain anywhere, everyman’s ignorance is his own mountain. Ignorance is indeed a dark mountain that blocks a man’s view of God’s goodness. The story is told of the eagle who grew up among chickens, and never knew he could fly high, but lived, groveling like the chickens on the ground. It was the eagle’s right by nature to soar, but because he didn’t know it, he couldn’t access it.
knowledge is the key that opens the door to our inheritance. In Luke 11, Jesus rebuked the scribes and Pharisees, for taking away the key of knowledge. And in Mathew 16:19, Jesus speaking to His disciples said ‘And I will give unto you the keys of the kingdom of Heaven.’
The kingdom of God is operated by the keys of knowledge. God has so much stored up for us. As His sons we are meant to live a life of Heaven on earth. But access to this heavenly lifestyle is only available for those who by knowledge, have grown into sonship. Knowledge of The Word is like a special key or code, that grants access. The more you know, the more you can own. Discovery leads to recovery.
We must therefore search diligently in The Word until we make a discovery. The woman who lost her coin in Luke 15, lit her candle and searched diligently until she found what she was looking for. When we find it, there shall be a reward and our expectations shall not be cut off.
2 Peter 1:3 says God has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him. It is through knowledge of God that we gain access to all we need to live a glorious life. Everything is available. The question is; are we willing to pay the price of diligent search? It is those that know their God that can do exploits.
Lack of knowledge can keep a man grounded when he should be flying. Ecclesiastes 10:5, describes an error where servants ride, while princes walk. Why? Because the princes lacked knowledge. Not growing up into sonship through knowledge will cause heirs of the kingdom to walk like servants. Galatians 4 says an heir as long as he is a child [a spiritual babe] is no different from a servant.
It is knowledge that differentiates between sons and children. No right thinking father will hand over his company to a six year old child to run. The same way God cannot entrust certain things to a believer who is still a babe in Christ. Apostle Paul in 1 Cor 3:1 says ‘and I brethren could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.’ He refers to spiritual babes as still carnal. And the carnal person is not subject to the laws of God, he is still full of envying, strive, divisions. [Rom 8:7,1 Cor. 3:3]. He needs spiritual maturity to handle certain level of blessings. If God gives a million dollars to a spiritual babe, He may lose both the believer and the money. Because the prosperity of fools, shall destroy them. God doesn’t want what was meant to bless you to destroy you. so He waits until you grow to where you can handle the blessing before you can have access. So when we think we are waiting on God, He actually may be waiting on us to grow up in knowledge. When we are due, we will not be denied. We must therefore grow up in Christ to enjoy the privileges of sons. We must revolt against ignorance. We must settle down to seek the truth. And when we know the truth, we shall be set free from every bondage and oppression.
PRAYER: Lord, I know your Word is always true, please grant me the grace to access the faith I need for my inheritance to be delivered to me. May I never be a victim of spiritual ignorance in Jesus Name.
QUOTE
Nothing liberates like truth, the truth you know and act upon will set you free.- – WORDBITE 222.
[ADAPTED FROM THE BOOK METAMORPHOSIS]