Knowing God

Knowing God

[My Offline Bible] Jeremiah 9
23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: 24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.

I've been meditating on knowing God for a few days now. It's such a big thing really. If our quest is to please Him then we must know Him. If our quest is to be conformed to His image, we must know Him intimately. If we ever would want to present or represent Him to the world we can't but know Him very intimately.

But how do you know a God you can't see? It's obvious whoever made all these things and we inclusive would be far far ahead of us. Can you imagine the years of scientific discoveries and research into understanding creation, that's just physical creations yet without fully being on top of it, how far will it take us to discover whoever the Creator is? I'm sure atheism may have been a result of giving up on such a gargantuan thought of trying to unravel what's behind creation, it's safer to deny anything is behind it than to even indulge in thinking about it... But that's cheap...

Definitely His ways are past finding out..

[My Offline Bible] Romans 11
33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! 34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? 35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? 36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

So we conclude that He alone can reveal Himself to whoever He wants.

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 11
27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

But then He desires that we seek Him. Seeking Him is to know Him and knowing Him is to be like Him. With the understanding that the Son is the revealer of the Father we can seek Christ to see Him.

This is the essence of discipleship. But we won't know Him until we seek Him and seeking Him to know Him.

Sometimes we equate knowing scriptures to knowing Him. Knowing scriptures maybe a means to knowing Him but knowing scriptures isn't equal to knowing Him but we can't know Him as He would without us knowing and understanding scriptures.

Knowing Him can't happen unconsciously. It happens as we desire to know Him in order to be like Him. It isn't religious at all, it is something the heart of man would naturally seek if it is applied to, but it won't happen casually. It won't happen if we don't want to.

[My Offline Bible] Jeremiah 29
13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

Knowing God is knowing His ways. We may never know all of Him in this realm. For instance we are limited within beginnings and endings, causes and effects etc... We hardly can comprehend anything without a cause or a beginning, that's a limitation to us....knowing the Cause of all things that may not have a cause 'itself', permit me.

While we may not be able to know Him that much in our realm, we need to know Him to the extent of being able to be relevant with the knowledge of Him in our realm.

We need to know Him in His ways and also in His acts. It'll help us in pleasing Him and in relating with Him..

[My Offline Bible] Hebrews 3
10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

But as we can see, knowing Him must be our deliberate ultimate goal to fulfill our purpose, our purposes are tied to who we were made to be and we were made to be like God, it is to the level of being like Him that we fulfill divine purpose...

But that intention of being like Him and our thirst and seeking to be like Him is responded to by God with self revelations. He reveals Himself. He reveals what He wants us to know of Him per time and as we are ready to comprehend Him. There were things Jesus Christ wanted to reveal to the disciples that they weren't ready for while He was with them and had to wait till the Holy Spirit came...

Secrets things of God are His...the ones revealed are for us...

[My Offline Bible] Deuteronomy 29
29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

We must prioritize knowing Him beyond mere religion... Beyond seeking Him for bread and butter and immediate gratification. But to know Him deeply as love, light and life by the revelation of the Holy Spirit of the Son towards being like Him.

Can you imagine being exactly like Christ in character and in power? Your problem won't be how to get the next meal...it's practically living beyond the physical... That's what God intends for us but it comes by knowing Him, not just knowing scriptures but using the knowledge of scriptures to attain His knowledge, the knowledge of His ways and of His acts!

[My Offline Bible] Psalms 103
7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.

[My Offline Bible] Zechariah 3
7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.

[My Offline Bible] Proverbs 9
10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

Good morning, Happy Sunday...