Do You Really Know God?
I ask this question because so many misunderstand what exactly knowing God means. Knowing God to many equals regular attendance in church, the ‘once in a while’ praying and reading the Bible, being a worker in church, having some form of moral standards, and so on…the list could be potentially long. The reality however is that none of this constitutes knowing God because knowing Him is not an ‘on the surface’ sort of knowing, it’s not by works, that is, doing good deeds (which in itself is fantastic but does not lead you to knowing this amazing God).
Knowing God involves accepting and acknowledging that you are indeed a wretched sinner, and that even your righteous acts are like filthy rags before Him (Isaiah 64v6) because He is pure and holy. Knowing God is accepting that Jesus Christ died on the Cross of Calvary for your sins, and accepting Him into your life as your Lord and personal Saviour. Knowing God is forsaking all the sins in your life, never to go back to them again. Knowing God is giving your all to Him, realising that without Him you are nothing and can do nothing. Knowing God is obeying His word and pleasing Him daily. Knowing God is trusting Him completely and totally, handing over your life to Him, and allowing Him to chart the course of your life so that the destiny and purpose He has planned for you CAN be fulfilled. Knowing God is communing with Him on a daily basis and allowing Him to Father you.
God is a loving and merciful God (Psalm 100v5; Joel 2v13) and His love for us goes on and on and on. We can never understand or fathom His love for mankind because even with our unfaithfulness and awful attitudes, He still loves us and wants to bring us to Himself. However, His love cannot take precedence over His justice. God is a perfectly just God, Who can never and will never stand sin (Deut 32v4; Isaiah 13v11), and because of this, we will ALL be judged based on how we lived our lives (Hebrews 9v27) on the surface of this earth where His grace continues to abound TODAY! On that day of judgement, there will be no mercy for those who refused to give their lives to Christ (and ultimately God), and the grace which abounds today will cease to exist. Unfortunately, those who have not lived their lives according to His word and His precepts will perish forever (Revelation 20v11-15).
I am not trying to bring doom and gloom but all I have said are true facts. If you are reading this and you still do not know God, His GRACE and MERCY still ABOUND for you TODAY; you still have a chance to go to the Father, pleading and asking for mercy. Trust me when I say He is waiting with open arms to welcome you, waiting to wrap His arms around you, waiting to love you with a love that has not quenched since human existence, waiting to show you off as His own (Luke 15v11-24).
Don’t waste much time. Tomorrow may just be too LATE!!
Word of the day…
Deuteronomy 30:19 – I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live.
On point KB, on point….
Another valid question, which is often overlooked is, ‘Does God Know You?’. It precedes in my opinion the above question, it boils down to the fact that God must call us initially if we are ever going to know Him. The Bible which is the motherlode of God’s revelation to man did not fall out of the sky, it came through a people. And the underlying principle of this revelation is that God called Abraham and chose his descendants after him. “You did not choose me, I chose you” Christ said to his disciples. It has to go beyond waking up one morning and ‘giving your life to Christ’ (whatever this means today).
This is a major reason why many people who profess God don’t know him, because He never knew them either to start with. “The promise is to you and to your children and to ALL who are afar off”, Peter said to the gathered crowd on the day of Pentecost, but who are these ‘all’? the next statement clarifies that, “as many as the Lord our God will CALL”
Yashua would say to the presumptous on that day, “Depart from me you workers of iniquity!”, Why? Because they never knew Him? No. “For I NEVER KNEW YOU.”
God must know you.