YOU DO NOT KNOW IT ALL

TEXT: Acts 18:24-28

If you take time to read the text for today’s message you will find the following positive characteristics about the young man of God called Apollos;

(1) An eloquent man

(2) Mighty in scriptures

(3) Instructed in the way of the Lord

(4) Fervent in the spirit

(5) He spoke and taught diligently the things of the Lord

(6) He spoke boldly without fear or favour in the synagogues

Those were qualities and spiritual virtues of brother Apollos.  He was teaching and everyone was getting blessed. But the Bible pointed out something about him: “knowing only the baptism of John”. He was anointed and doing exploits, but he still did not know many things; his knowledge was incomplete. He wouldn’t have known everything and needed matured believers to teach him. And God brought Aquila and Priscilla his way and they helped him “and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly”.

Apollos was humble and teachable. He didn’t feel on top of the world as if he was perfect and complete in knowledge. He accepted correction and embraced counsel and in the end he did greater impacts. His impact was so huge that some people ‘carnally’ compared his work with Paul’s work (1 Corinthians 3:3-6).

Today, there are people who carry a ‘little’ knowledge of the Bible and they feel and live above correction. They assume a ‘never-wrong’ attitude. They see themselves as knowing so much of the faith and being so long in the race that their knowledge puffs them up and they live with a negative ‘superiority mentality’. They can correct others but can never be corrected simply because they believe they are always right, can never be wrong and should never be faulted. This “unteachable” attitude is what has made them unreachable by people who could have helped them.

Apostle Paul could have been waylaid and killed but God used a small boy to save his life. The boy had a ‘spiritual information’ which Paul with his previous vision (in the same chapter) never knew (Acts 23:11). Paul was humble and listened (Acts 23:14-35). Don’t let your “bigness” be the reason you won’t end well. Come low, be humble and accept you need the counsels, corrections and wisdom of other people to live life and end well. Let us learn from Paul.

(SPIRIT SWORD DAILY DEVOTIONAL – Wednesday, 2nd April, 2014. YOU CAN READ SPIRIT SWORD DEVOTIONAL AT: www.drwilliamsbukola.blogspot.com OR Visit www.treasuredhouse.org)