Knowledge or Power?

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 8, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 26.

Knowledge or Power?

ONE day of God's own power is worth more than a lifetime of mere knowledge of the truths of God. W. B. Anderson, of India, uttered a warning last summer, at the Mussoorie convention, against the theoretical knowledge of spiritual things: "Perhaps we never miss the morning devotional hour. We have whole passages of the Bible at our tongue's end. We have read widely in systems of theology. We have constructed a great system of truth for ourselves. We know all about the theory of prayer. We have become sure of these things with a certain knowledge." Yet, as the speaker declared, this may all be only a phantom with which we deceive ourselves. We may be spiritually powerless in the midst of this accumulated knowledge. For spiritual power consists not in mere knowledge, but comes only through the presence of a Person, Jesus Christ. Only as we yield to Christ and draw continually upon Him will He fill us and flow out from us in the fulness of the power of God.—Sunday School Times.