Knowing and experiencing.

There is a great difference between knowing about something and experiencing it.

I lived among the Yupik Eskimos in Alaska for two years.

I can tell you all about them, But that would not communicate to you

the taste of aging fish, the texture of seal meat or whale blubber,

the smell of home-tanned seal skins or the thrill of riding on a dog sled,

the experience of going trapping at 50 below zero, of hunting walrus,

or having a whale surface a few feet from the 18-foot skin boat you are in!

You could even watch a film on all this, but you still only know about it.

No, experiencing it is “knowing beyond knowledge,"

which is exactly what Ephesians 3:18,19 describes where Paul

wants us to "grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,”

[that is knowing about the Love of Christ,] then he says,

"and to know this love that surpasses knowledge….”

which is to actually experience Christ’s love in your life.

More on this tomorrow

Picture: nothing you’ve every experienced: hunting walrus