I want to tell y'all a story o.

So this one time back in OAU I started feeling like I was quite the knowledgeable Christian. I had come in contact with materials of leaders of the Word of Faith movement and I read and listened to many. Pastor Chris, Papas Hagin, Copeland.. Lots more.

I had studied the NT over and over and I was feeling great. I began to feel like there was not much my fellowship could offer me anymore. We went for Bible studies and I knew what the teacher was going to say before he said it. I was like man where's the depth?

I basically started despising our leaders little by little. I started thinking of leaving the fellowship and going to attend Church off campus. But the God began to show me something in the early days of thinking like this. Something I will never forget.

He began to make me see my motives. He showed me I was beginning to think I was better than these people who led me. You know that thing where someone is teaching and you are like "Man, if na me hold that mic when I'm done with this topic, kai their fathers." Yes. That.

He showed me how I would be of much benefit to these people if I loved them and looked for how best to serve them instead of leaving the fellowship. I quickly saw how knowledge was puffing me up. So I repented.

I now had a purpose, a context for the things that God had taught me as I listened to all these great men of faith. I saw that I could do better. I saw that when you love, within the context of a local church, you commit. You serve. You cover their shortcomings.

What happened next was as I committed the more to my fellowship and served, as I put that local assembly first, I began to love it. Lol. I couldn't imagine leaving ASF. What was more beautiful was I started learning these people God had placed before me to teach me.

I started enjoying myself. God enlarged my heart to not just love people, but to be able to admit that I didn't know it all, and I couldn't either.

What's the point of my story? It is that sometimes you can know too much you become so self conceited.

Knowledge is not wrong. You cannot walk properly with God without knowledge. But what God wants us to know beyond knowledge His love. That's what moves the Knowledge we have from just technical stuff, to a living experience we can share with His family.

One thought that keeps me grounded is that the All Knowing God chose to live inside my heart and call me son and friend. He doesn't despise me because of my inadequacies. I can't despise His other kids because I think I know better than them.

Like Paul told the Corinthian church that year, knowledge puffs up. Reminds me of a balloon filled with air. Or those peanut packets smh. No substance. Love on the other hand, it builds up. So you grow bigger too but in this case you are stronger, a more durable believer.

One other thing about just having knowledge outside the context of God's love is that it becomes burdensome. Especially when you aren't in a position to share. You then occupy the position of a critic and a mocker. It damages you.

Anyways that's all. I hope my story helped you somehow. Or at least e sweet you. Stay awesome.