Here is a riddle, “How can I get a job with no experience, and how can I get experience with no job?”

Tell me, what good is it to have knowledge only, if you haven’t put your knowledge to use? Knowing is not wisdom! Wisdom is to benefit from one’s knowledge. Experience is the fruit or result of knowledge put into practice. This is why for the most part older people have more wisdom than the young. At some point, action took place from knowledge and became experience.

The only way to truly understand and know something is when you experience something! Experience is putting knowledge to the test. There are no shortcuts to this. In order to gain wisdom and true understanding, one must sooner or later take knowledge and put it to action. This truth applies to all things, especially when knowing God.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. (James 1:5). Mere knowledge by itself is unfruitful and has no weight. Rather, if you take knowledge and apply action, that same gain’s experience and finally wisdom.

The world is full of minds that are overflowing with knowledge, but to take that knowledge and apply it experientially, only then can you truly understand. Many say they know God, but this is shallow and futile if they have never experienced God. It’s impossible to truly know someone or something if you’ve never experienced them or it.

You understand certain things about your friend or spouse, because you have at some point experienced them in a practical way. The same goes for any relationship. Most of us can say we have heard about some celebrity and we know their name, but we can not say we know them. We only know about them. The same can be said of names like Jesus or God. Until we actually experience God or His Son in a real experiential way, we only know about Them. We don’t really know Them. True Christianity is actually experiencing God in a practical real way. We are liars if we say we know and love God, if we have never even experienced Him in our lives. John talks about knowing God in a practical way. If we say we love God, but don’t love our brother who can be experienced in a real way, but choose not to love, we lie. Do we really experience God in our everyday lives? Or do we just go as far as the name? Faith is really Action! ~ Selah