Episode 66 - "Knowing " what to do

We can get used to doing certain things to the point that we don't even know we are doing them . Then there are times that we are moved thru wisdom to do things we've never done or just don't make sense to others .

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This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine. Hello and welcome to Shine. I'm your host, Nicole Florence, and we've been talking a little bit about the difference of knowledge and wisdom. And today I want to talk a little bit about knowing what to do. I think that many of us, well, let me change that. If you're anything like me, we always know what to do, right? I can solve any problem, I answer a lot of questions, I make a lot of decisions day-to-day. In my house, I'm the go-to. Hey Gaga, where is this? Uh, what are we having for dinner? What do we need to pack or get ready for? When's the flight leaving? Right? All of it. You know, we are people who fix, we are task-oriented, and and part of it is we are so experienced at doing it, and because we do it all the time, um it it's it gets more efficient for you know us to do it probably more than others. I um started this podcast, I think, in February, and when I first started and I was recording and sound and uh feedback, protection and exporting recordings, y'all, it took me forever, and I messed up a lot. But over time, as I've been doing this more and more and gained the experience and knowledge and repetition, I have been able to kind of really get this down much more efficiently, and I think that happens with anything in life. Um, when we first start a job, when we first learn how to drive a car, um taking care of our kids, babies, um, cooking our favorite meal. Um, with more and more practice, we gain more knowledge and experience, and we become more efficient at it, and we actually become quite good at it. And sometimes I can be so good at it, I'm doing it without even knowing. There are times I may have things on my mind, and I will drive home, and I don't even really remember the drive. Has that ever happened to you? Of course, maybe I shouldn't be recording this. There are times when I am cleaning the house or I am making a meal, and I am so used to doing it, right? We talked about that muscle memory, spiritual muscle memory a while ago, um, that I don't even realize I'm doing it because I've done it so many times, which, you know, isn't a bad thing. But I think it's important because what I have understood about this is when I know what to do, and you know, my everyday tasks and every everyday life, um, there's a difference between knowing what to do spiritually and being obedient and working through faith. Because there are many times that I may know what to do and I may be working on autopilot, but it's that obedience and faith that guides me through when I am just lost in the direction, when I am overwhelmed maybe by what's going on. My wisdom through my obedience and faith gives me the judgment that I need when I'm in a space when I have difficult times, difficult decisions to navigate. You know, I a lot of times will have the knowledge as a physician, um, where I know, yes, I should probably do A, B, and C for this loved one of mine, because that's what I'm told is most effective. That is what I have learned. This is what all the specialists around me are telling me, but my wisdom and my faith will tell me otherwise. And that is the difference between having that knowledge and that everyday experience of knowing how to do things, but we need our wisdom to truly discern, right, if we need to be doing them. I think many of us have been caught in those situations where, yes, my brain tells me I probably need to do a certain thing or not do a certain thing, right? I need to listen to the logic, I need to listen to the rationale, I need to listen to data, right? All the stuff that we talk about in this earthly world. But there are times that we have to rely on our wisdom through our faith, through our relationship with God, through his relationship with us, which a lot of times we can't explain. A lot of times we don't understand. And someone will say to me, Why on earth did you do that? It just didn't make sense. And you know what? It didn't have to make sense to you. Sometimes it doesn't make sense to me, but I know that through his guidance and through my faith and through my obedience, this is what I know I am supposed to do, and this is the path that I am supposed to be on, even if it doesn't make any worldly sense to anyone. It doesn't have to, right? We know Proverbs 3, 5, 6, right? Lean not into your own understanding. So I think that's where, yes, many of us have knowledge, we have experience, um, we know what to do with our brains and with our bodies, but we have to understand that wisdom may go up against that. Wisdom may cause us to do something that is not ordinary, it may cause us to do something that is not comfortable, and it may not make any sense. But you may be in the middle of knowing what to do, like we know, every single day, and doing work and driving home and making dinner. I promise you that when you know through wisdom that you are being guided, you will be aware, you will be awake, you will see it, you will hear it, you will feel it, and have an understanding that it is the wisdom of the Lord that is guiding you. And when you begin to see why you were being guided that way, you will be able to look back and go, ah, that's what was going on. Because his plan is always greater than ours. So as you walk through your life, as you walk through your spiritual life, yes, I know you all know how to praise, you know how to fellowship, you know how to read scripture, to study the Bible, all of those good things that we need to know and have the knowledge of who he is and who we are to him. But I want you to truly have the wisdom of knowing those moments, those times when he is truly guiding you to a greater purpose in those moments or in those conversations or in those interactions that may appear very small, but still have a greater purpose. So, yes, I know what I need to do every day. I know I need to get up, I need to, you know, rally my people in my house and make sure everybody's good and get to work and make my dinner and all this stuff. But wisdom is what allows me to truly see those moments that I need to be guided to make those extra phone calls, to turn right instead of left, to pause and truly see what God is guiding you to do for the day. Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.