{"id":3233,"date":"2008-05-14T21:37:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T21:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/05\/a-heart-to-know-thee\/"},"modified":"2008-05-14T21:37:28","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T21:37:28","slug":"a-heart-to-know-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/05\/a-heart-to-know-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/Monk%20in%20Cave.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Monk%20in%20Cave.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/Monk%20in%20Cave-thumb.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"242\"style=\"float:left; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Thursday: The Gift of Knowledge<\/strong><br \/>\n&ldquo;How deep is the mine of God&#8217;s wisdom, of his knowledge; how inscrutable are his judgments, how undiscoverable his ways!  Who has ever understood the Lord&#8217;s thoughts, or been his counsellor?&rdquo; (Rom 11:33-34).<br \/>\nThe Gift of Knowledge is a way of seeing to the core of things.  It is insight into situations and persons.  It is a light projected onto the Word of God or, again, a light projected from the Word of God into the heart.  It is that occasional pulling back of the corner of the veil that gives one just a fleeting glance into the inscrutable mysteries of God.<br \/>\nThe Gift of Knowledge produces a quiet joy in the soul, a delight in the truth, a desire for union with the Beloved.  In this way, the Gift of Knowledge is directly related to the development of the twelfth fruit of the Holy Spirit: chastity.<br \/>\nThe Gift of Knowledge allows one to sort things out in the light of God; it obliges one to a closer conformity with His designs.  With knowledge comes responsibility.  With knowledge also comes a deeper capacity for compassion.  The Gift of Knowledge does not make one an arrogant know-it-all.  It makes one meek and lowly of heart.  Above all it fills the soul with admiration, making one sing, <em>Quam magnificata sunt opera tua, Domine!<\/em>  &ldquo;How great are thy works, O Lord!  Thou hast made all things in wisdom&rdquo; (Ps 103:24).  The more one uses the Gift of Knowledge, the lower one descends into adoration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday: The Gift of Knowledge &ldquo;How deep is the mine of God&#8217;s wisdom, of his knowledge; how inscrutable are his judgments, how undiscoverable his ways! Who has ever understood the Lord&#8217;s thoughts, or been his counsellor?&rdquo; (Rom 11:33-34). The Gift of Knowledge is a way of seeing to the core of things. It is insight <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy-spirit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-Q9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}