The Knowing - Cephas Sarki

Every carpenter will have an end product picture in mind before bringing out his chisel and hammer to carve a wood into a finished material. And since not all materials with go with just any kind of wood, he knows just the right wood for that material. It is his profession, his area of specialization, so he simply can’t be wrong, neither can he make the mistake of applying the right design on the wrong material.

So is it with God and us even before we came to the womb: our strength, weakness, likes, dislikes, color, race, type, taste, purpose, and length of days. He knows them all because He had designed us to possess all those qualities for that purpose he has in mind for us before creating us. And that is why, as we grow, several questions tend to flood our minds, such as: 

*Who am I?

*What is my purpose here on earth?

*How do I go about it?

*Is life worth living at all?

*What happens to me after my stay here on earth?

And so the only way to get answers to our unending questions is by knowing who He is because we are made after His own image and likeness. Through Him we get to know our strength and the abilities He has given to every one of us, with which we can go on and live the live we are made to, because we know our maker.

The seven sons of Sceva heard and saw the mighty works of God done by Paul the Apostle by the name of Jesus. Instead of going further to know about that Jesus whom paul preach, they went ahead to try casting out evil spirit from the possessed. The end result was dramatic.

 Seven sons of a certain Jewish chief priest named Sceva were doing this.

 But one evil spirit retorted, Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who are you?

 Then the man in whom the evil spirit dwelt leaped upon them, mastering two of them,

 and was so violent against them that they dashed out of that house [in fear], stripped naked and wounded. 

Acts 19:14-16 [AMP]

Our knowledge of Christ gives us freedom. We find rest in Him. And we gracefully scale through the pool of unnecessary mistakes

And such as violate the covenant he shall pervert and seduce with flatteries, but the people who know their God shall prove themselves strong and shall stand firm and do exploits[for God]. Isaiah 11:32

We are made strong by the knowledge of Christ in us. We know who we are in him. We understand our rights and our place. We are not shaken by the winds of the world and its forces. Unlike the sons of Sceva, we know the name by whom we preach, because our identity comes from him. We are not supposed to belong to the fold of existing souls in wonder of who they are or what they should do. We live in wonders, not in wonder. We manufacture wonders. We do not wonder. In him we live, move, and have our being. We have a knowing.