Head knowledge.

While reading John Stott’s Your Mind Matters, I came across an interesting quote:

“Knowledge should not puff up with conceit but in falling on our faces before God in sheer wonder.”

I sometimes disappoint myself in the fact that I seek so much head-knowledge of God and His Word while not applying it to my heart. This is my biggest struggle as an aspiring theology professor. I fear so much that I will fill my head (and my student’s heads) with facts and impart to them (because of my lack of heart application) a faith built on knowledge without an all-out abandon for God’s own heart. This knowledge of God is a gift from God that we cannot, and do not, attain by ourselves. It is all given to us to glorify Him, yet we pervert it.

May our knowledge be a direct glorification of our Father, the author of all things.