There are certain areas of your life about which you know a great deal. That knowledge is either from books or from practical experience. The more you pursue that topic, the better informed you become. If you study long enough and hard enough, you may become an expert. To gain that amount of knowledge takes a great deal of time and effort.
The more you learn about any area of study, the more you become aware of how much more there is you can learn. About the time you feel you have reached the pinnacle in your pursuit, you become aware that there is much more to learn. After you have studied for some time, you realize that the more you learn, then the more there is to learn. I have heard someone say that an education is an awareness of just how little you know about a subject.
This is also true, when you think about your relationship with God Almighty. As a new believer, you study your Bible and think you know a good bit about its contents. Your knowledge of God gives you a feeling of completeness, until you talk to a more mature Christian. At that moment, you realize just how little about Got that you know. A theological student came to Charles Spurgeon one day, greatly concerned that he could not grasp the meaning of certain verses in the Bible. The noted preacher replied kindly but firmly, “Young man, allow me to give you this word of advice. Give the Lord credit for knowing things you don’t understand.” Yes, as you get to know the Lord more, then the more you realize just how little you know.
David is known as a man after God’s own heart. Why? Because he knew God, personally. Although, he knew God intimately, he says this about God, “Great is the Lord, and highly to be praised, and His greatness is unsearchable” (Psalm 145:3). As close as David was to God, he realized that he still did not know Him fully.
You know a lot about the Lord, but as you get to know Him more, you realize you do not know Him fully. Yet, let this motivate you to know and love God more!
