What idiot said, "Knowing is half the battle?"

We think we have it licked if we know it! "I know. Oh, I know.Yeah, I know. You know?" I wonder how many times this gets said in a day? ...I'm guessing a lot! But God says, blessed are the hungry, not the knowing. To be spiritually hungry, you have to realize in the deepest part of who you are, that knowing something does absolutely nothing for you. I can see it more and more in me everyday. Knowing has become my greatest struggle in my desire to be hungry for God. I can glide so beautifully though this life and all it throws at me when I am confident in my knowledge...so I think. When I KNOW what needs to be done, I can win the battle, surrender it all, and influence many...right? WRONG! Misty Edwards says it so well in one of her new songs when she sings, "Blessed are the hungry. You said it I believe it. Hunger is an escort to the deeper things of you." Hunger is the escort. Being hungry is the escort to the deeper things of God. I have "known" this, but in my desire to go deeper I found the enemy of hunger: it's knowledge! I pondered on that for a while and came to the conclusion that many times I think that KNOWING I need to be hungry, is being hungry. That is simply not true in so many ways. Now - don't shut me out just yet, with the thoughts of already knowing this! :) You see, I believe we all live in that place of "I know" way too much. I do! Being in the place of "I know" blinds us and speaks deceiving lies to us that says, "knowing is half the battle." Since when is knowing half the battle? Let's think a moment on how stupid that phrase really is. Just ask the soldiers over seas if knowing is half the battle. Ask a woman, like me, who has struggled with her weight all her life if knowing is half the battle. Ask a mother who's child is dying of cancer if knowing is half the battle. Ask the deeply wounded who have daily thoughts of suicide if knowing is half the battle. Ask the doctor who just told a family to say goodbye to their father if knowing is half the battle. Ask a runner, or the poor if knowing is half the battle. Ask a new graduate nurse if knowing is half the battle. Ask a man behind bars, never to see the ocean with his eyes if knowing is half the battle. Ask the lonely, the sick, the dying, the poor, the rich, the famous, ask anyone really, if knowing is really half the battle. I believe the answer is still the same. There is no way that knowing is half the battle. If that were the case, we would have all reached our goals, dreams and well thought of plans by now. Knowing gets us nowhere. In fact, the bible clearly states that, "some are always learning, but never coming to the knowledge of the truth." ...But, I know, I know, Oh yeah, I know! Here is what I say: Let's stop knowing and start to hunger. Let's take the little knowledge this human brain can contain and let hunger escort us to the deeper things. Am I hungry for the deeper things? It's so hard for Americans to understand the word hunger to it fullest meaning. I believe we "Americanize" it with our experience of skipping a meal. Hunger means having a compelling desire or need for, having a painful sensation in your need for something, or being in a state of weakness caused by the need for something. To starve, ache, yearn or crave for something. To be in a place that you will do whatever it takes to be satisfied. After looking at it like that, it makes knowing a cheap imitation doesn't it? Hunger is an action word that requires absolutely no knowledge. A baby fresh from the womb can be hungry....and what does he know? Knowing we need to do something, change something, create something, fight something, build something, stand firm in something, trust for something, hope in Him, grow bigger in faith, become humble more often, die to self, stop talking, talk more, speak the truth, shut up for a minute, let patience be in charge, fight for a cause, not fight for a cause, letting it be about someone else, letting it be about you, pouring out your life with absolutely nothing in return, receiving something in return, hearing the hard truth, speaking the hard truth, dying to self, taking the heat, being uncomfortable, loving with a force that presses through the obvious reasons you should give up....you see, knowing we need to do these things, in no way makes them happen. In no way does knowledge move mountains. In no way does knowledge accomplish His will on earth. In no way does knowledge escort us into the deeper things. Oh, but hunger, my beautiful friend will take you there faster than the fastest man made transportation ever will. Hunger, my sister and my brother, will take you straight to the deeper, real, purposeful source quicker than any form of knowledge ever could. Hunger is the escort. Being desperate for the things of God, the will of God, the heart of God, the presence of God. Being hungry. Not being filled with knowledge. Who cares if you KNOW you need to love your brother when he is stabbing you in the back. Who cares. The whole world knows we need to love the unlovely. My question is: Do I hunger enough to be escorted into the deeper things, that in loving my brother, the enemy is defeated and God is glorified. Only when we hunger, will we go deeper, see deeper, feel deeper, pray deeper, persevere deeper, cry out deeper, hope deeper, pray deeper, think deeper, laugh deeper, sing deeper, love deeper, touch others deeper, change deeper, unite deeper, live deeper, and grow deeper. Only when we hunger. Not when we know. So my friend, my question to you and to me is this: Do you KNOW, or do you HUNGER? Do you just know you need to hunger, or do you hunger? Knowing will never escort us to the deeper things. Only hunger can do that. Hunger will always be the action that takes us to the deeper things of God. And in that place of hunger He promises to satisfy. Hunger brings us deeper and satisfies. He said it, I believe it. Who needs knowledge anyway?