Do you? Are you completely convinced and confident of what you know? How do you Know what you know? Where’s your proof?! Context. When I am talking about this aspect of knowing, the reference is spiritual. What do you know and believe and act on when it comes from your spiritual knowledge? What are you learning about what you know or what you need to know?
Those aren’t rhetorical questions, or just mental gymnastics. They are incredibly important because they define who you are – what you know and believe and how you express this. I do believe that sometimes we are… surprised(?) by what we do know. It tends to be considerably more vast that initially assumed. The question really is – do we, how do we express what we know? What it is that we are expected to know and act on?
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve
what God’s will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will.” (Romans 12:2)
“Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker
who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.”
(2 Timothy 2:15)
Just considering only these 2 scriptures, we have a good starting place for what we know as Christians and how we share the good news that the Lord is with us equipping and enabling us for the work of the ministry (Ephesians 4:12). Point being – do we know this AND act on it? Just how do we share this truth with others?
You always know what you know when you look at your behavior. That’s our best evidence. Somehow, in my mind, it is an application of what James said:
“But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me
your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by
my works.”(2:16)
“What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but
does not have works? (v.14) … Thus also faith by itself, if it does
not have works, is dead.” (v. 17)
If we say we know and we do not act on the knowledge… do we know? And if this answer is ‘yes’, then what does this say about us when we don’t demonstrate what we know?
