For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge… (2 Peter 1:5b)

So you’re trusting God.

Excellent.

You’re practicing the goodness that comes out of a faith relationship with Him.

Wonderful.

Peter’s not through with you yet.

You see, there’s only so far you can go if you’re ignorant.  Just ask my students.  Think about it.  How much can you trust God, really, if you don’t have knowledge of who he is and how he has chosen to work in our world?  What we call “blind faith,” is really just, “lazy hope.” I am willing to climb on an airplane because, though I don’t fully understand the physics of how it works, I understand enough to know that an airplane does fly.

Usually

If someone offered me a ride on a flying chicken sandwich, I would have to say “no,” because I understand enough to be confident that a chicken sandwich big enough to hold me would never be capable of sustained flight.

That may be the worst analogy I have ever allowed to go to print.  But you get the point, right?

If you are going to live for Christ, if you are going to do good on his behalf, then you must know him.  Spend time today getting to know him better.  God has given us 66 books on the subject of how much he loves us, and how he wants to work in us and through us.  Study them.  Study him.

There will be a test, Beloved.

It’s called Life.