This is a rock! We all know this is a rock because we know what a rock is. But, what if we had never seen or heard of a rock before (along with everyone else in the world). Imagine your teacher or employer places this object on your desk and say that your job for the next week is to show this "object" to everyone you come in contact with?
This would be a difficult task, because everyone would ask you the same questions,
"What is it?" and you would be forced to say,
"I don't know!" And then the follow up question would be,
"Well, where did it come from?" And again, you would be forced to say,
"I don't know!" The final question would probably be,
"Well, why in the world are you attempting to show me something that you know nothing about?"
I think it is fair to say, that in order for us to accurately "SHOW" something, we must "KNOW" what it is. Many of you wonder why it is so difficult for us to SHOW love to those around us.Could it be that you do not "KNOW" Love?
"In order to SHOW LOVE you must KNOW LOVE: GOD IS LOVE."
JOHN 4:7-12 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
