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“Add To Your Faith | Knowledge That Becomes Our Nature”
Categories: Add To Your Faith | 2025
The things in my life that I know best are the ones that I recall and revisit every day—the “I could do that with my eyes closed” kind of stuff. I know my way around the house because I navigate it every single day. I know the way I drive to work without thinking about it. I know my family by daily interactions. I know my native language by perpetual usage. These and many others are a kind of knowledge so regular and deep that I take it for granted. They are a kind of knowledge that I’ve gained, not just by amassing facts, but by repetitive experience.
What if we added knowledge to our faith like that? What if our knowledge of Christianity was so deep that it became fully natural to us? What if our knowledge of the things of God was so ingrained by daily experience and exercise that we took it for granted as the natural and normal way of life?
How can we do that? By revisiting, recalling, and refreshing the Christian way in us every. single. day.
In Deuteronomy 17, God prescribed regulations for the ideal king who would lead his people, and they were exceedingly simple. They come down to his restraining his own power and prestige (vv. 14-17) and continually reading God’s word (vv. 18-20). I find those rules powerfully instructive: More than being savvy politicians with deep knowledge of political science, God wanted the kings to have knowledge of him. And how would they come to a point where that knowledge is their natural path? By engaging the written word every. single. day.
Daily Bible reading is a habit that Christians sometimes write off as “a good idea, but not really commanded.” And while that’s technically true, it’s not good spiritual wisdom. The reality is that the more often we engage the words and ways of God, the more natural they become for us. Over time, they become the only way that we know to do life. They become the things that we can do and say without thinking about them, because we have come to know them on a whole different level. “Add to your faith… knowledge [that comes from daily habits].”
- Dan Lankford
