Knowledge and Love

            We are natural learners. God created us with the ability to change from our experiences, even while we are still in the womb! Sometimes, however, we forget that the sin of Adam and Eve was that they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The first sin was a sin in how people learned! They chose to exclude God from their learning.

            Nowadays, we spend years being educated. We are formed in incredible ways as we learn about the basic facts about the world we live in. However, we do not always use that knowledge for good. Sometimes we use our knowledge to control others, or to feel superior, or to gain an edge so that we can beat out the competition. The problem is that we have lost our ability to find God in our knowledge and to see how we can carry out God’s will through that knowledge.

            There are countless ways we can take our knowledge and use it for the benefit of others. We could take our knowledge of architecture and build a house with Habitat for Humanity. We could take our knowledge of the Bible and use it to form who we are. The pathway to move from knowledge to love is prayer. We ought to take what we know and pray that God makes it clear how we can use that knowledge for good. If we could pray whenever we learn something new, just imagine how caring and compassionate we could be.