One day, while I was sharing a quick, one-sentence thought with someone in need of healing, the words flowed out of my mouth spontaneously as if they had been said through me, instead of by me. I knew the words were true, but I didn’t know I understood them. I didn’t know I knew!
In thinking about that experience, I realized I had to have known the truth of the statement at one level, but hadn’t consciously claimed that knowledge as my understanding or the awareness of it as an active foundation from which we “live, and move, and have our being” (Acts 17:28).
The analogy of riding a bicycle came to mind. Initially you focus on the mechanics of riding that bike, trusting the instructor, the theory, and having an image in thought of doing it just as you have seen others do. You know you can do it and claim it as your own, because you know it can be done.
