Experience is greater than mere Knowledge

As I lay awake yet another night crying out to God for the answers to my many questions, it never ceases to amaze me when I hear His still small voice.  Its funny, when God starts to speak, everything which seemed so chaotic only moments ago, suddenly is calm.  It must have been truly remarkable to have been one of the Apostles in the boat with Christ the night He spoke to the wind and the waves and it all became calm... No threats, no worry, no fear.  Just calm.

What an experience!   Then and now.  That same voice still tells the wind and the waves of my heart and mind to be still and they are.

I don't know how much time you spend in reflection, but I spend a great deal of time in that mode. I find that there are certain places and times I revisit.  Times when  I received a nugget of wisdom or revelation from God.  It seems to help me as I struggle to make some sense of this journey of life I'm on.  Tonight, has been one of those nights.

For whatever reason, I was thinking about a letter my Mom wrote to me just before she went home to be with the Lord. It was a beautiful letter about how much she loved me and how proud she was of me, but somewhere in the middle of that letter was her prayer for me, taken right out of Ephesians 3.
She wrote that I would one day know through practical experience, the love of Christ for me.   I remember asking God one night for that very thing.  How in the world would I Know through practical experience, the love of Christ?

Tonight, God revealed the answer to that 17 year old question!  I don't know why it took so long for me to get it, but I'm sure glad I've got it now!  God has revealed His Love to me (and perhaps to you) through the Body of Christ.  I can't help but think that the night I asked God that question 17 +  years ago, He just smiled and said, "oh baby girl, I'm gonna bring you to Savannah, GA one day and you are gonna have people love on you like never before; then you will KNOW, through practical experience, how much I love you."

Maybe you are like me.  Maybe you rack your brain trying to figure out what God is up to.  Maybe you, like me, spend so much time asking, that you nearly miss the experience of it all. If so, head on over to Ephesians 3.  Read the whole chapter.  It's a great chapter!  But don't miss the part where Paul writes in vs 19  "That you may really come to know (practically, through experience for yourselves) the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge (without experience); that you may be filled unto all the fullness of God ( the richest measure of his divine Presence, and become a body filled  and flooded with God Himself!" 

My time here in Savannah is drawing to and end.  I'm going back home to Connecticut. But I go away from this place full, overflowing actually, of the experiential love of my Savior.  "Jesus, with skin on" is not just a catchy phrase.  It is who WE are called to be.  It has been demonstrated to me and I plan on mimicking it from now on because Experience is Far Greater than Mere Knowledge!