Knowledge of His Will (Colossians 1:9-14)

Reading St. Paul's letter to a church he has not seen but only heard of their conversion to the Kingdom of God, he speedily wrote a prayer of encouragement to the church for them to endure the severe ideological attack they were going through by a group of people that had a philosophical view that were perverting the true meaning of the Gospel. The Saint therefore, laying out the structure of his prayer used a word as his thesis that was used also by those philosophers who contradicts the Gospel. The word he used is, "KNOWLEDGE". He said, i pray for you and asking God to fill you with the KNOWLEDGE of his will. What is knowledge? Why do the Saint wanted the church to be fill with the knowledge of God's will? Can knowledge supply us with an understanding of God's will? Moving forward, it's essential to define the word knowledge. The Webster dictionary provides two interesting definition of this word. First, knowledge is information, understanding, or skill that you get from experience or education. Second, knowledge is awareness of something: the state of being aware of something. 

Therefore, base upon these definition we have an idea of the Saint goal in his prayer for the church, which could be for them to be aware of what really the Father had done on their behalf through the Lord Jesus Christ. As the Saint said, "Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of God. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves. In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins." The Saint knew that knowledge and not a special knowledge was fundamental to grasped this truth of the Father's will. In essence the Father's will is for them to take hold of what he has done for them. For this reason, the Saint wanted the church not to have knowledge as some special or a mystical accent, however, he wanted them "to be fill of the knowledge of God's will in order to live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the father".